Revelation 16:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ Then the second [angel] poured out his bowl into the ocean, making it turn into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the ocean died.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The second [angel] emptied his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a corpse [thick, corrupt, ill-smelling, and disgusting], and every living thing that was in the sea perished.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died, even the things that were in the sea.

Common English Bible

³ The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and the sea turned into blood, like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing in the sea died.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the second Angel poured out his bowl upon the sea. And it became like the blood of the dead, and every living creature in the sea died.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and there came blood as it were of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.

Revelation 16:3 Cross References

Acts 2:41

Then those who responded [by faith] to the words [spoken by Peter and the apostles] were immersed, and about three thousand persons were added to them [i.e., the apostles] on that day.

Revelation 10:2

He held in his hand a little book [i.e., scroll] which was open. And he placed his right foot on the ocean and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 11:6

These witnesses have the authority to shut the sky up so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. And they have the authority to turn the waters into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want to.

Revelation 13:1

And I saw a beast coming up out of the ocean. It had ten horns and seven heads, and [it had] ten crowns on his horns and on each head there was a blasphemous name [i.e., a name that slandered God].