10. tails like unto scorpions--like unto the tails of
scorpions.
and there were stings--There is no oldest manuscript for this
reading. A, B, Aleph, Syriac, and Coptic read, "and
(they have) stings: and in their tails (is) their power (literally,
'authority': authorized power) to hurt."
JFB.
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