Revelation 17:4-6
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
4 And the woman had been clothed-with[a] purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold, and with precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand being-full of abominations[b] and[c] the impure things of her sexual-immorality, 5 and a name having been written upon her forehead, a mystery[d]: “Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth”. 6 And I saw the woman being-drunk from the blood of the saints, and[e] from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.
The Angel Explains The Mystery of The Great Prostitute And The Beast
And having seen her, I wondered with great wonder.
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- Revelation 17:4 Or, had put-on.
- Revelation 17:4 Or, detestable things, loathsome things. This word is used of things associated with idolatry.
- Revelation 17:4 Or, even.
- Revelation 17:5 Or, forehead: “Mystery Babylon the Great.
- Revelation 17:6 Or, even.
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