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# They had tails
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The word "They" refers to the locusts.
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# with stingers like scorpions
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A scorpion is a small insect with a poisonous stinger at the end of its long tail. The sting can cause severe pain or even death. See how you translated a similar phrase in [Revelation 9:6](./05.md). AT: "with stingers like scorpion stingers" or "with stingers that could cause terrible pain as scorpion stingers can" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# in their tails they had power to harm people for five months
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Possible meanings are 1) they had power for five months to harm people or 2) they could sting people and the people would be in pain for five months.
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# the bottomless pit
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This is an extremely deep narrow hole. Possible meanings are 1) the pit has no bottom; it continues to go down further forever or 2) the pit is so deep that it is as if it had no bottom. See how you translated this in [Revelation 9:1](./01.md).
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# Abaddon ... Apollyon
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Both names mean "Destroyer." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-transliterate]])
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# there are still two disasters to come
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Existing in the future is spoken of as coming. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/power]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/king]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/angel]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/pit]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/name]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/hebrew]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/greek]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/woe]] |