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The Fourth Seal

When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, ‘Come! ’ And I looked, and there was a pale-green[a] horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following after him.(A) They were[b] given authority(B) over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.(C)

The Fifth Seal

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.[c](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:8 Or a greenish grey
  2. 6:8 Other mss read He was
  3. 6:9 Other mss add about the Lamb