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A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth.
3
Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
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His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.
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And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne;
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and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.
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And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back,