Rev 12
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And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman having been clothed with the sun, with
the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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And being pregnant, she was crying out, being in labor and being in great pain to
give birth.
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And another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great, fiery dragon having seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads.
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And his tail dragged a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And
the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that whenever she
might give birth, he might devour her Child.
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And she gave birth to a Son, a male who would shepherd all the nations with an iron
rod. And her Child was caught up to God and to His throne.
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Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place having been prepared
by God, so that they may nourish her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
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And there came to be war in heaven: Michael and his angels, waging war with the dragon;
and the dragon made war, and his angels,
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and he did not prevail, nor was a place found for him [any] longer in heaven.
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And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out
with him.
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Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of
our brothers, the [one] who accused them before our God day and night, has been thrown
[out of heaven].
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And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives to the death.
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Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and to the
sea! Because the devil was thrown down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he
has but a short time."
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Now when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who
gave birth to the male [Child].
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And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly into the
desert to her place, so that she might be nourished there [for] a time and times and
half a time, from [the] face of the serpent.
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And the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a river after the woman, so that
he might cause her to be carried off by the river.
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But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river
which the dragon had cast out of his mouth.
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And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off to make war with the rest
of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.