⁴⁰ because God had ^[a]provided ^(A)something better for us, so that ^(B)apart from us they would not be made perfect.

⁹ And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw ^(A)underneath the ^(B)altar the ^(C)souls of those who had been slain ^(D)because of the word of God, and because of the ^(E)witness which they had maintained;

¹¹ And ^(A)a white robe was given to each of them; and it was told to them that they should ^(B)rest for a little while longer, ^(C)until the number of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were to be killed even as they had been, would be ^(D)completed also.