28 One of them named Agʹa·bus+ rose and proceeded to indicate through the spirit that a great famine was about to come upon the entire inhabited earth;+ which, for that matter, did take place in the time of Claudius.

8 And I saw, and, look! a pale horse; and the one seated upon it had the name Death. And Haʹdes*+ was closely following him. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword+ and with food shortage*+ and with deadly plague* and by the wild beasts+ of the earth.