MANNAFEST

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

KJV

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ASV

For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

WEB

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.

YLT

for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;

DBT

For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they injure.

About this book

New Testament

RevelationJohn on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.

Author
John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
Date
Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both

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