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Revelation 9:5

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5And 1they were not permitted to kill 2anyone, but to torment for afive months, and their torment was like the torment of a bscorpion when it 3stings a man.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit it was given to them that they might not kill them
  2. 2Lit them
  3. 3Lit strikes

Cross references

  1. aRev 9:10
  2. b2 Chr 10:11, 14; Ezek 2:6; Rev 9:3, 10

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.

NLTNew Living Translation

They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment is like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.

KJV 1900King James Version

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.