Then he carried me away in the Spirit[a](A) to a wilderness.

I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered[b] with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.(B) The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, jewels, and pearls.(C) She had a golden cup in her hand filled with everything detestable(D) and with the impurities of her[c] prostitution. On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:(E) Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:3 Or in spirit
  2. 17:3 Or was filled
  3. 17:4 Other mss read earth’s

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