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The Prostitute and the Beast

17 (A) One of the seven angels who had emptied the bowls came over and said to me, “Come on! I will show you how God will punish that shameless prostitute who sits on many oceans. (B) Every king on earth has slept with her, and her shameless ways are like wine that has made everyone on earth drunk.”

(C) With the help of the Spirit, the angel took me into a desert, where I saw a woman sitting on a red beast. The beast was covered with names that were an insult to God, and it had seven heads and ten horns.

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The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast

17 Then (A)one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying [a]to me, “Come, (B)I will show you the judgment of (C)the great harlot (D)who sits on many waters, (E)with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and (F)the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

So he carried me away in the Spirit (G)into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting (H)on a scarlet beast which was full of (I)names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 17:1 NU, M omit to me

The Great Prostitute and the Beast

17 Then (A)one of the seven angels who had (B)the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of (C)the great prostitute (D)who is seated on many waters, (E)with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and (F)with the wine of whose sexual immorality (G)the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And (H)he carried me away in the Spirit (I)into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on (J)a scarlet beast that was full of (K)blasphemous names, and (L)it had seven heads and ten horns.

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Domen över den stora skökan

17 (A) En av de sju änglarna med de sju skålarna kom och talade med mig och sade: "Kom, jag ska visa dig domen över den stora skökan som tronar på väldiga vatten. (B) Jordens kungar har horat med henne, och jordens invånare är berusade av hennes otukts vin."

(C) I Anden förde han mig bort till en öken. Och jag såg en kvinna som satt på ett scharlakansrött vilddjur, fullt av hädiska namn och med sju huvuden och tio horn.

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