Revelation 9:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

New Living Translation
They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.

English Standard Version
They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.

Berean Study Bible
They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.

New American Standard Bible
They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months.

NASB 1995
They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.

NASB 1977
And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.

Amplified Bible
They have tails like scorpions, and stingers; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months.

Christian Standard Bible
and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.

Contemporary English Version
Their tails were like a scorpion's tail with a stinger that had the power to hurt someone for five months.

Good News Translation
They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They had tails and stingers like scorpions. They had the power to hurt people with their tails for five months.

International Standard Version
They had tails and stingers like scorpions, and they had the power to hurt people with their tails for five months.

NET Bible
They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

New King James Version
They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.

King James 2000 Bible
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

New Heart English Bible
They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails is their power to harm people for five months.

World English Bible
They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

American King James Version
And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

American Standard Version
And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

A Faithful Version
And they had tails like scorpions, and stingers; and they were given power to injure men with their tails for five months.

Darby Bible Translation
and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power [was] in their tails to hurt men five months.

English Revised Version
And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And they had tailes like vnto scorpions, and there were stings in their tailes, and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And they had tayles lyke vnto scorpions, and there were stynges in their tayles: and their power was to hurt men fiue monethes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And they had tayles lyke vnto scorpions, and there were stynges in their tayles. And their power was to hurt me fyue monethes.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And they had tayles lyke vnto scorpions and there were stinges in their tayles. And their power was to hurt men v. monethes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;

Berean Literal Bible
And they have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their power to injure men for five months is in their tails.

Young's Literal Translation
and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority is to injure men five months;

Smith's Literal Translation
And they have tails as scorpions, and goads were in their tails: and their power to injure men five months.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And they have tails similar to scorpions and stings; and their authority is in their tails to hurt men for five months.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had over them

Catholic Public Domain Version
And they had tails similar to scorpions. And there were stingers in their tails, and these had the power to harm men for five months.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they had tails like scorpions and a sting in their tails, and their authority is to hurt people for five months.

Lamsa Bible
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and they had power to hurt men five months.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and they had power to hurt men five months.

Godbey New Testament
And they have tails like scorpions, and stings: and their power is in their tails, to hurt men five months:

Haweis New Testament
And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and they had power to hurt men five months.

Mace New Testament
they had stings in their tails like scorpions; and they had leave to molest men for five months with their stings.

Weymouth New Testament
They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months.

Worrell New Testament
And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

Worsley New Testament
And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
















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