The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, jewels, and pearls.(A) She had a golden cup in her hand filled with everything detestable(B) and with the impurities of her[a] prostitution. On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:(C) Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth. Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.(D) When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

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  1. 17:4 Other mss read earth’s

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