1. And then a great wonder appeared in heaven: There was a woman who was clothed with the sun. The moon was under her feet. She had a crown of 12 stars on her head.
2. The woman was pregnant. She cried out with pain because she was about to give birth.
3. Then another wonder appeared in heaven: There was a giant red dragon. He had seven heads with seven crowns on each head. He also had ten horns.
4. The dragon’s tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth to a baby. He wanted to eat the woman’s baby as soon as it was born.
5. The woman gave birth to a son. He will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. But her child was taken up to God and to his throne.
6. The woman ran away into the desert to a place God prepared for her. There she would be taken care of for 1,260 days.