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. 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, 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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 17:3 Or in spirit
  2. Revelation 17:4 Lit gilded
  3. Revelation 17:4 Lit stone
  4. Revelation 17:5 Or “MYSTERY...”

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