The Woman on the Beast

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me“Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 2 The kings of the earth were immoral with [her], and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”

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And [the angel] carried me away in [the] Spirit into a wilderness, [where] I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names [and] had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, [and] adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead a mysterious name was written:

BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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