So he carried me away in the Spirit[a](A) to a desert. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered[b] with blasphemous names and had seven heads and 10 horns.(B) The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She had a gold cup in her hand filled with everything vile(C) and with the impurities of her[c] prostitution. On her forehead a cryptic name(D) was written:

BABYLON THE GREAT

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE VILE THINGS OF THE EARTH.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 17:3 Or in spirit
  2. Revelation 17:3 Lit was filled
  3. Revelation 17:4 Other mss read of earth’s

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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