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13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,
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The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
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It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
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And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
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The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
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The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
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A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
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The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
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The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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