¹And a great sign appeared in the sky: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a wreath of twelve stars,

²and having in womb, and she cries out, being in travail and being in pain to bring forth.

³And another sign was seen in the skies, and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven royal crowns,

⁴and his tail drags a third of the stars of the sky, and he cast them to the earth. And the dragon has stood before the woman who is about to bring forth, so that when she may bring forth her child he may devour it.

⁵And she brought forth a male son, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and to his throne.

⁶And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place prepared by God, so that there they may feed her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

⁷And there was war in the heaven: Michael and his messengers to war against the dragon, and the dragon warred back, and his messengers;

⁸and he had not enough strength, nor was a place found for them any longer in the heaven.

⁹And the great dragon was thrown out, the ancient serpent, who is called the accuser and the adversary, who is deceiving the whole inhabited world. He was thrown down to the land, and his messengers with him were thrown down.

¹⁰And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying: Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Anointed One, because the accuser of our brothers has been cast down, who is accusing them before our God day and night.

¹¹And they themselves overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony, and they have not loved their life unto death.

¹²Because of this, rejoice, O heavens, and you who are dwelling in them! Woe to those dwelling in the land and the sea, because the accuser has come down to you having great fury, knowing that he has a short appointed-time.

¹³And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the land, he pursued the woman who had brought forth the male child.

¹⁴And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she may fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished there a time and times and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

¹⁵And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water as a river, so that he may cause her to be carried away by a flood.

¹⁶And the land gave help to the woman, and the land opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had cast out of his mouth.

¹⁷And the dragon was angry with the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children who are keeping the commandments of God and holding the testimony of Jesus the Anointed One.

¹⁸And he stood upon the sand of the sea.