The Woman and the Dragon

12 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman ^(A)clothed with ^(B)the sun, with ^(C)the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

² She was pregnant and ^(A)was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.

⁴ His tail swept down ^(A)a third of the stars of heaven and ^(B)cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child ^(C)he might devour it.

⁵ She gave birth to a male child, ^(A)one who is to rule^[a] all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was ^(B)caught up to God and to his throne,