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The Book of Revelation, Chapter 9, Verse 10

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And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.
King James Version
And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.
American Standard Version
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.
New English Translation
and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it,“There will be no more delay!
World English Bible
They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
11
One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
12
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
13
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
14
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
15
And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
16
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
17
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
18
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
19
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
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Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.