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”.