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Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on MountZion, and with Him onehundred and forty-four*thousand, having His name and the name of His Fatherwritten on their foreheads.
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And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of manywaters and like the sound of loudthunder, and the voicewhich I heard was like the sound of harpistsplaying on their harps.
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And they sang a newsongbefore the throne and before the fourlivingcreatures and the elders; and noonecouldlearn the songexcept the onehundred and forty-four*thousand who had been purchased from the earth.
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These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselveschaste. These are the ones who follow the Lambwherever* He goes. These have been purchased from amongmen as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
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And I sawanotherangelflying in midheaven, having an eternalgospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to everynation and tribe and tongue and people;
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and he said with a loudvoice, "FearGod, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters."
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And anotherangel, a secondone, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has madeall the nationsdrink of the wine of the passion of her immorality."