Rev 12
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And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under
her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;
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and she was the child; and she cries out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
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And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
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And his tail draws the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the
earth: and the dragon stands before the woman that is about to be delivered, that
when she is delivered he may devour her child.
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And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a
rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.
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And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that
there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels [going forth] to war with the
dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;
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And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.
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And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he who is called the Devil and
Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels
were cast down with him.
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And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the
power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser
of our brethren is cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
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And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their life even to death.
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Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for
the sea: because the devil is gone down to you, having great anger, knowing that he
has but a short time.
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And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman
that brought forth the man [child].
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And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might
fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
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And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might
cause her to be carried away by the stream.
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And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the
river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
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And the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest
of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus: