The kings of the earth(A) committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual immorality.”(B) Then he carried me away in the Spirit[a](C) to a wilderness.

I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered[b] with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.(D) The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, jewels, and pearls.(E) She had a golden cup in her hand filled with everything detestable(F) and with the impurities of her[c] prostitution.

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Footnotes

  1. 17:3 Or in spirit
  2. 17:3 Or was filled
  3. 17:4 Other mss read earth’s

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