NEW TESTAMENT

Revelation 8:1

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When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

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Verse 1. There was silence in heaven: which is to represent as it were a general consternation, and an expectation of dreadful events at the opening of the seventh seal, and when seven Angels stood prepared to sound seven trumpets. Witham.

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