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Revelation 17:3

Jesus

1 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.”

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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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
WEB
He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
ASV
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
DARBY
And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
BLB
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast being full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
ÅB
Og han førte meg i ånden ut i ørkenen, og jeg så en kvinne sitte på et skarlagenrødt dyr, som var fullt av bespottelses-navn og hadde syv hoder og ti horn.
OTB
Så førte han meg bort i Ånden til en ørken, og der så jeg en kvinne sitte på et skarlagenrødt dyr fullt av bespottelige navn, med sju hoder og ti horn.
B1930
Og han førte mig i ånden ut i ørkenen, og jeg så en kvinne sitte på et skarlagenrødt dyr, som var fullt av bespottelses-navn og hadde syv hoder og ti horn.

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  • Revelation 12:3

    Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.

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  • Revelation 13:1–6

    Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

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  • Revelation 17:9–12

    This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

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  • Revelation 17:18

    And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

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  • Revelation 17:6–7

    I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

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  • Revelation 12:6

    And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

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  • Revelation 12:14

    But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

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  • Daniel 7:20

    I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

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