12:1 And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;
12:2 and she was pregnant; and she cries out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.
12:3 And there was seen another sign in heaven: and look, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
12:4 And his tail draws the third part of the stars of heaven, and casts them to the earth: and the dragon stands before the woman who is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.
12:5 And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to shepherd all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.
12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels [going forth] to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;
12:8 And they did not prevail, neither was their place found anymore in heaven.
12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
12:10 And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now has come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
12:11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they did not love their soul even to death.
12:12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you+ who dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil has gone down to you+, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.
12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the man [child].
12:14 And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
12:17 And the dragon waxed angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those who keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus. [18] And he was standing on the sand of the sea.