Murdock(i)
9 I John, your brother, and partaker with you in the affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the Messiah, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus the Messiah.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, which said:
11 That which thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
12 And I turned myself to look at the voice that talked with me; and when I had turned, I saw seven candlesticks of gold;
13 and, in the midst of the candlesticks, one like the Son of man, clothed to the feet, and girded about his paps with a girdle of gold.
14 And his head and his hair were white, like white wool, like snow; and his eyes, like a flame of fire:
15 and his feet were like fine brass, flaming in a furnace: and his voice, like the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars; and from his mouth issued a sharp twoedged sword; and his visage was like the sun shining in its strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, and said, Fear not: I am the First and the Last;
18 and who liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for ever and ever. Amen. And I have the keys of death and of the unseen world.
19 Therefore, write what thou hast seen, and the things that are; and the things that are to be hereafter:
20 the mystery of these seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven candlesticks of gold. Those seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.