NEW TESTAMENT

Revelation 16:21

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Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague was exceedingly severe.

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Verse 21. And great hail like a talent came down, and so forth [1] Which need not be taken literally, but only metaphorically, to signify the heavy weight of God’s judgments upon sinners. Witham.

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A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.

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