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Revelation 5:8
New English Translation
Revelation 5:8
New English Translation
8 and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground[a] before the Lamb. Each[b] of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).[c]
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- Revelation 5:8 tn Grk “fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”
- Revelation 5:8 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
- Revelation 5:8 sn This interpretive comment by the author forms a parenthesis in the narrative.
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