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# They had tails
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The word "They" refers to the locusts.
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# with stingers like scorpions
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A scorpion is a small insect with a poisonous stinger at the end of its long tail. The sting can cause severe pain or even death. See how you translated a similar phrase in [Revelation 9:6](./06.md). AT: "with stingers like scorpion stingers" or "with stingers that could cause terrible pain as scorpion stingers can" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# in their tails they had power to harm people for five months
Possible meanings are 1) they had power for five months to harm people or 2) they could sting people and the people would be in pain for five months.