And (A)he carried me away in the Spirit (B)into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on (C)a scarlet beast that was full of (D)blasphemous names, and (E)it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman (F)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned (G)with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand (H)a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of (I)mystery: (J)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”

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