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Thenone of the sevenangels who had the sevenbowlscame and spoke with me, saying, "Comehere, I will show you the judgment of the greatharlot who sits on manywaters,
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And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a womansitting on a scarletbeast, full of blasphemousnames, havingsevenheads and tenhorns.
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The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and preciousstones and pearls, having in her hand a goldcupfull of abominations and of the uncleanthings of her immorality,
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And the angelsaid to me, "Why* do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the sevenheads and the tenhorns.
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"The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whosename has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.