Revelation 11:3-9

11:3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority ¹  to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth. 11:4 (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.) ²  11:5 If ³  anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths ⁴  and completely consumes ⁵  their enemies. If ⁶  anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way. 11:6 These two have the power ⁷  to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time ⁸  they are prophesying. They ⁹  have power ¹⁰  to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want. 11:7 When ¹¹  they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer ¹²  them and kill them. 11:8 Their ¹³  corpses will lie in the street ¹⁴  of the great city that is symbolically ¹⁵  called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 11:9 For three and a half days those from every ¹⁶  people, tribe, ¹⁷  nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. ¹⁸ 

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¹ tn The word “authority” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. “Power” would be another alternative that could be supplied here.

² sn This description is parenthetical in nature.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁴ tn This is a collective singular in Greek.

⁵ tn See L&N 20.45 for the translation of κατεσθίω (katesqiw) as “to destroy utterly, to consume completely.”

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁷ tn Or “authority.”

⁸ tn Grk “the days.”

⁹ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹⁰ tn Or “authority.”

¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹² tn Or “be victorious over”; traditionally, “overcome.”

¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹⁴ tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).

¹⁵ tn Grk “spiritually.”

¹⁶ tn The word “every” is not in the Greek text, but is implied by the following list.

¹⁷ tn The Greek term καί (kai) has not been translated before this and the following items in the list, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

¹⁸ tn Or “to be buried.”