7 And when they have finished their testimony, w the beast that rises from x the bottomless pit [1] y will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically [2] is called z Sodom and a Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and b refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and c those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and d exchange presents, because these two prophets e had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days f a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, g “Come up here!” And h they went up to heaven i in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13 And at that hour there was j a great earthquake, and k a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and l gave glory to m the God of heaven.
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