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They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
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And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.
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They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
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And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
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One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
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Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
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saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
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So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
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Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.
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And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
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By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed--by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.