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 and precious [c]stones and pearls, having in her hand (H)a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a (I)mystery, “(J)BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS 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

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit(A) into a wilderness.(B) There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet(C) beast that was covered with blasphemous names(D) and had seven heads and ten horns.(E) The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.(F) She held a golden cup(G) in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.(H) The name written on her forehead was a mystery:(I)

babylon the great(J)

the mother of prostitutes(K)

and of the abominations of the earth.

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