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Revelation 5:3
No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
Revelation 5:3 · World English Bible
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Revelation 5:3 in other translations
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.
No one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look in it.
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In context
1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”
3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
4 Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
5 One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
6 I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
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