Revelation 17:3-5
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
3 And he carried me away in the Spirit[a] to a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast being-full-of names of [b] blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman had been clothed-with[c] purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold, and with precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand being-full of abominations[d] and[e] the impure things of her sexual-immorality, 5 and a name having been written upon her forehead, a mystery[f]: “Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth”.
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- Revelation 17:3 Or, in spirit. See 1:10.
- Revelation 17:3 That is, characterized by.
- Revelation 17:4 Or, had put-on.
- Revelation 17:4 Or, detestable things, loathsome things. This word is used of things associated with idolatry.
- Revelation 17:4 Or, even.
- Revelation 17:5 Or, forehead: “Mystery Babylon the Great.
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