耶利米書 5:25的塔木德參照：Taanit

As we found in the days of Shimon b' Shetach, when rain would fall on Wednesday nights and Shabbat nights, until the wheat was the size of kidneys, and the barley like olive pits, and the lentils like golden denarii [currency], and the made a model of these to demonstrate to later generations how much [damage] a sin causes, as it says (Isaiah 5:25) 'Your iniquities have disrupted these things, and your sins have prevented good from you'.