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 John has more to tell us: "And I heard a voice as if in the  midst of the four living creatures say: 'A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the olive oil and the wine.'" (Revelation6:6)   All four cherubs are united in expressing a need to watch food supplies carefully-just as the people had to "eat bread by weight and in anxious care" prior to Jerusalem's  destruction in 607 B.C.E.  (Ezekiel 4:16) In John's time, a quart of wheat was reckoned to be daily ration  for a soldier.  How much would ration cost? One denarius -a whole day's wage! ( Matthew 20:2)  What if a man has a family? Well, he could buy three quarts of unpolished barley  instead.  Even that would feed only a small family. And barley was not viewed as a quality food such as wheat. 

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