New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 17:5-9

5and on her forehead a name was written, a 1mystery, “2BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF 3THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” 6And I saw the woman drunk with 4the blood of the 5saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered 6greatly. 7And the angel said to me, “Why 7do you wonder? I will tell you the 8mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the 9seven heads and the ten horns.

8“10The beast that you saw 11was, and is not, and is about to 12come up out of the 13abyss and 14 15go to destruction. And 16those who dwell on the earth, 17whose name has not been written in the book of life 18from the foundation of the world, will 19wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. 9 20Here is the mind which has wisdom. The 21seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,

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Notes

1. Revelation 17:5 2 Thess 2:7; Rev 1:20; 17:7 ↩
2. Revelation 17:5 Rev 14:8; 16:19 ↩
3. Revelation 17:5 Rev 17:2 ↩
4. Revelation 17:6 Rev 16:6 ↩
5. Revelation 17:6 Or holy ones ↩
6. Revelation 17:6 Lit with great wonder ↩
7. Revelation 17:7 Lit have you wondered ↩
8. Revelation 17:7 2 Thess 2:7; Rev 1:20; 17:5 ↩
9. Revelation 17:7 Rev 17:3 ↩
10. Revelation 17:8 Dan 7:7 ↩
11. Revelation 17:8 Rev 13:3, 12, 14; 17:11 ↩
12. Revelation 17:8 Rev 11:7; 13:1 ↩
13. Revelation 17:8 Rev 9:1; 13:1 ↩
14. Revelation 17:8 One early ms reads is going ↩
15. Revelation 17:8 Rev 13:10; 17:11 ↩
16. Revelation 17:8 Rev 3:10 ↩
17. Revelation 17:8 Ps 69:28; Rev 3:5 ↩
18. Revelation 17:8 Matt 25:34; Rev 13:8 ↩
19. Revelation 17:8 Rev 13:3 ↩
20. Revelation 17:9 Rev 13:18 ↩
21. Revelation 17:9 Rev 17:3 ↩

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