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A woman in purple and scarlet holds a golden cup while seated on a seven-headed scarlet beast as John watches.
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Revelation 17:3-6

Woman scarlet beast cup and martyr blood

Babylon and the scarlet beast · Revelation 17

Story guide: John sees the richly adorned woman, symbolic Babylon, carried by the scarlet beast and associated with persecution of the saints.

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3And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

4And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the unclean things of her sexual immorality.

5And on her forehead a name was written: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth.

6And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And seeing her, I marveled greatly.

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