The Woman and Her Son Versus the Dragon

12 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, and who was pregnant[a] and was crying out because she[b] was having birth pains, and was in torment to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven, and behold, a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven royal headbands.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 12:2 Literally “who was having in the belly”
  2. Revelation 12:2 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was having birth pains”) which is understood as causal
  3. Revelation 12:3 Or “diadem crowns”