³ And ^(A)he carried me away ^[a](B)in the Spirit ^(C)into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a ^(D)scarlet beast, full of ^(E)blasphemous names, having ^(F)seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman ^(G)was clothed in purple and scarlet, and ^[b]adorned with gold, precious ^[c]stones, and pearls, holding in her hand ^(H)a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality, ⁵ and on her forehead a name was written, ^[d]a ^(I)mystery: “^(J)BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF ^(K)THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with ^(L)the blood of the ^[e]saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered ^[f]greatly.

³ For all the nations have fallen because of the ^(A)wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and ^(B)the kings of the earth have committed acts of sexual immorality with her, and the ^(C)merchants of the earth have become rich from the ^[a]excessive wealth of her ^[b](D)luxury.”

⁴ I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “^(E)Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive any of her plagues;