Revelation 5:9-11

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⁹They sing a new song:

“You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God
    saints from^[a] every tribe and language and people and nation;
¹⁰you have made them to be a kingdom and priests serving^[b] our God,
    and they will reign on earth.”

¹¹Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

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Revelation 5:9 Gk ransomed for God from
Revelation 5:10 Gk priests to

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