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10 · kai The ho third tritos angel angelos blew his trumpet salpizō, and kai there fell piptō from ek · ho heaven ouranos a great megas star astēr, blazing kaiō like hōs a torch lampas, and kai it fell piptō on epi a ho third tritos of the ho rivers potamos and kai on epi the ho springs pēgē of ho water hydōr. 11 · kai The ho name onoma of the ho star astēr is legō · ho Wormwood apsinthos. · kai A ho third tritos of the ho waters hydōr became ginomai wormwood apsinthos, and kai many polys · ho people anthrōpos died apothnēskō from ek the ho waters hydōr because hoti they had been made bitter pikrainō.

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10 The third angel sounded [his trumpet], and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch [flashing across the sky], and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of [fresh] waters. 11 The name of the star is [a]Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters, because they had become bitter (toxic).

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 8:11 Gr apsinthos, cf Eng “absinthe.” This is a plant from which a bitter oil is extracted that is highly toxic to the nervous system. The name “wormwood” comes from the fact that the oil was used medicinally to kill intestinal worms.