She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth.(A) Then another sign[a] appeared in heaven: There was a great fiery red dragon(B) having seven heads and ten horns,(C) and on its heads were seven crowns.[b] Its tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth.(D) And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth it might devour her child.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 Or another symbolic display
  2. 12:3 Or diadems

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