SEVEN

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• Genesis 2:3

  God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

• Genesis 7:2

  You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

• Genesis 7:4

  In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

• Genesis 7:10

  After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

• Genesis 8:10

  He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

• Genesis 8:12

  He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

• Genesis 29:16

  Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:17

  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:20

  Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 41:1

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

• Genesis 41:2

  Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

• Genesis 41:3

  Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

• Genesis 41:4

  The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

• Genesis 41:5

  He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

• Genesis 41:6

  Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

• Genesis 41:7

  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:9

  Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

• Genesis 41:11

  We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

• Genesis 41:12

  There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

• Genesis 41:13

  As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

• Genesis 41:17

  Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

• Genesis 41:18

  and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

• Genesis 41:19

  and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Genesis 41:20

  The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

• Genesis 41:21

  and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

• Genesis 41:22

  I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

• Genesis 41:23

  and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

• Genesis 41:24

  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:26

  The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

• Genesis 41:27

  The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

• Genesis 41:28

  That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:29

  Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:30

  There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

• Genesis 41:31

  and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

• Genesis 41:32

  The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

• Genesis 41:53

  The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

• Genesis 41:54

  The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

• Genesis 41:56

  The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

• Exodus 7:25

  Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.

• Exodus 12:15

  “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

• Exodus 20:11

  for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

• Exodus 22:30

  You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

• Exodus 29:30

  Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

• Exodus 29:35

  “You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

• Leviticus 4:6

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 12:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn’t turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

• Leviticus 14:7

  He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

• Leviticus 14:16

  The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:15

  “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:

• Leviticus 23:18

  You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:24

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

• Leviticus 23:25

  You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”

• Leviticus 23:26

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 23:27

  “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:28

  You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 23:29

  For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

• Leviticus 23:30

  Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

• Leviticus 23:31

  You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Leviticus 23:32

  It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

• Leviticus 23:33

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 23:34

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:35

  On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.

• Leviticus 23:36

  Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.

• Leviticus 23:37

  “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;

• Leviticus 23:38

  besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:39

  “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

• Leviticus 23:40

  You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

• Leviticus 23:41

  You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.

• Leviticus 23:42

  You shall dwell in temporary shelters seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,

• Leviticus 23:43

  that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Leviticus 23:44

  Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.

• Leviticus 25:8

  “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

• Leviticus 26:18

  “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:19

  I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

• Leviticus 26:20

  Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

• Leviticus 26:21

  “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

• Numbers 23:1

  Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

• Numbers 29:32

  “‘On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

• Deuteronomy 5:13

  You shall labor six days, and do all your work;

• Deuteronomy 5:14

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

• Joshua 6:4

  Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

• Ruth 4:15

  He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

• 1 Samuel 10:8

  “Go down ahead of me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Wait seven days, until I come to you, and show you what you are to do.”

• 1 Samuel 11:3

  The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”

• 1 Samuel 13:8

  He stayed seven days, according to the time set by Samuel; but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 12:16

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• 2 Samuel 12:18

  On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

• 2 Samuel 12:22

  He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

• 2 Samuel 24:13

  So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

• 1 Kings 8:65

  So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

• 1 Kings 18:43

  He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.” He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

• 2 Kings 5:10

  Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 1 Chronicles 15:26

  When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

• Ezra 7:14

  Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

• Esther 1:5

  When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Esther 2:9

  The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

• Job 2:13

  So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

• Psalms 12:6

  Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

• Psalms 119:164

  Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

• Proverbs 26:16

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

• Ecclesiastes 11:1

  Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

• Ecclesiastes 11:2

  Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

• Isaiah 4:1

  Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

• Isaiah 30:26

  Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

• Jeremiah 15:9

  She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded: and their residue will I deliver to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 3:15

  Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

• Ezekiel 40:22

  The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.

• Ezekiel 40:26

  There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

• Ezekiel 43:25

  Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without defect.

• Ezekiel 43:26

  Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

• Ezekiel 45:23

  The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

• Ezekiel 45:25

  In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.

• Daniel 3:19

  Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

• Daniel 4:32

  You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”

• Daniel 9:24

  Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

• Daniel 9:25

  Know therefore and discern, that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

• Amos 5:8

  seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

• Micah 5:5

  He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.

• Micah 5:6

  They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.

• Zechariah 3:9

  For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

• Zechariah 4:2

  He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;

• Zechariah 4:10

  Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

• Acts 6:3

  Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

• Acts 21:4

  Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• Acts 28:14

  where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

• Revelation 1:4

  John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

• Revelation 1:12

  I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.

• Revelation 1:16

  He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

• Revelation 1:20

  the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.

• Revelation 3:1

  “And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

• Revelation 4:5

  Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

• Revelation 5:1

  I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

• Revelation 5:6

  I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

• Revelation 8:2

  I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

• Revelation 10:3

  He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

• Revelation 12:3

  Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

• Revelation 13:1

  Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

• Revelation 15:1

  I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.

• Revelation 15:6

  The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.

• Revelation 15:7

  One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

• Revelation 17:3

  He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

• Revelation 17:7

  The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

• Revelation 17:9

  Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

• Revelation 17:10

  They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.