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1Then one of the seven angels who were holding the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come here. I will show you the judgment on the great harlot 2 who lives near the many waters.
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3 The kings of the earth have had intercourse with her, and the inhabitants of the earth became drunk on the wine of her harlotry."
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Then he carried me away in spirit to a deserted place where I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast 4 that was covered with blasphemous names, with seven heads and ten horns.
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The woman was wearing purple and scarlet and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a gold cup that was filled with the abominable and sordid deeds of her harlotry.
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On her forehead was written a name, which is a mystery, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth."
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5 I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the holy ones and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus
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