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A great ^(a)sign appeared ^(b)in heaven: ^(c)a woman ^(d)clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

and she was with child; and she *^(e)cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

Then ^(f)another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red ^(g)dragon having ^(h)seven heads and ⁽ⁱ⁾ten horns, and on his heads were ^(j)seven diadems.

And his tail *swept away a ^(k)third of the stars of heaven and ^(l)threw them to the earth. And the ^(m)dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth ⁽ⁿ⁾he might devour her child.

And ^(o)she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to ^[a](p)rule all the ^[b]nations with a rod of iron; and her child was ^(q)caught up to God and to His throne.

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there ^[c]she would be nourished for ^(r)one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

And there was war in heaven, ^(s)Michael and his angels waging war with the ^(t)dragon. The dragon and ^(u)his angels waged war,

and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

And the great ^(v)dragon was thrown down, the ^(w)serpent of old who is called the devil and ^(x)Satan, who ^(y)deceives the whole ^[d]world; he was ^(z)thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Then I heard ^(aa)a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the ^(ab)salvation, and the power, and the ^(ac)kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the ^(ad)accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

And they ^(ae)overcame him because of ^(af)the blood of the Lamb and because of ^(ag)the word of their testimony, and they ^(ah)did not love their life even ^[e]when faced with death.

For this reason, ^(ai)rejoice, O heavens and ^(aj)you who ^[f]dwell in them. ^(ak)Woe to the earth and the sea, because ^(al)the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only ^(am)a short time."

And when the ^(an)dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted ^(ao)the woman who gave birth to the male child.

But the ^(ap)two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly ^(aq)into the wilderness to her place, where she *was nourished for ^(ar)a time and times and half a time, from the ^[g]presence of the serpent.

And the ^(as)serpent ^[h]poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

^[i]But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon ^[j]poured out of his mouth.

So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to ^(at)make war with the rest of her ^[k](au)children, who ^(av)keep the commandments of God and ^(aw)hold to the testimony of Jesus.