Revelation 12:1

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Woman and the Dragon

12 ^[a]And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

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Footnotes

12.1-6 The child brought forth is the Messiah; the dragon is the devil; the woman who gave birth to the Messiah is Israel, and then becomes the Christian church, which continually gives birth to the faithful.

Revelation 12:1 in all English translations

Revelation 12:2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.

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Revelation 12:2 in all English translations

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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