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# General Information:
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John begins to describe a vision of an angel throwing the devil into the bottomless pit.
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# Then I saw
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Here "I" refers to John.
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# 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](../09/01.md).
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# dragon
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This was a large, fierce reptile, like a lizard. For Jewish people, it was a symbol of evil and chaos. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-symlanguage]])
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# sealed it over him
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The angel sealed the pit to keep anyone from opening it. AT: "sealed it to prevent anyone from opening it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# deceive the nations
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Here "nations" is a metonym for the people of the earth. AT: "deceive the people-groups" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# the thousand years
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"1,000 years" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# he must be set free
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "God will command the angel to free him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/angel]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/pit]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/serpent]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/satan]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/seal]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/deceive]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/nation]] |