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Then it opened the bottomless pit. Smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace. The sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole. Then locusts came down to the earth out of the smoke. They were given the power to sting like scorpions.[a] They were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or tree. They could harm only the people who did not have the sign of God on their foreheads.

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  1. 9:3 scorpions A scorpion is an insect that stings with a bad poison.

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