Revelation 17:5 - Catholic Public Domain Version

And a name was written upon her forehead: Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And on her forehead there was inscribed a name of mystery [with a secret symbolic meaning]: Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes (idolatresses) and of the filth and atrocities and abominations of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Common English Bible

A name—a mystery—was written on her forehead: “Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and the vile things of the earth.”