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1I saw a beast rising out of the sea. He had ten horns with ten crowns on his horns, and seven heads with blasphemous names on his heads.[#13:1 Some witnesses to the text read a blasphemous name .]
2The beast that I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.
3One of his heads seemed to have been fatally wounded, but his fatal wound was healed. And the whole world that followed the beast was amazed.[#13:3 Literally slaughtered to death]
4They worshipped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. They worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can go to war against him?”
5The beast was also given a mouth that spoke arrogant and blasphemous things. He was given authority to do these things for forty-two months.
6The beast opened his mouth to speak blasphemies against God: to blaspheme his name, his dwelling, and those who dwell in heaven.[#13:6 Or namely or that is]
7He was also given permission to wage war against the saints and to overcome them, as well as authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.
8All those who make their home on the earth will worship the beast—those whose names have not been written from the beginning of the world in the Book of Life, which belongs to the Lamb that was slain.[#13:8 Some witnesses to the text read the one whose name has .; #13:8 Or written in the Book of Life, which belongs to the Lamb that was slain from the beginning of the world .]
9If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
10If anyone is to be imprisoned, he is going to be imprisoned.[#13:10 A few witnesses to the text read The person who leads someone into prison .]
If anyone is to be killed with a sword, he is going to be killed with a sword.
Here patient endurance and confidence are needed by the saints.
11Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like the Lamb, and he spoke like the dragon.
12He exercises all the authority of the first beast on his behalf. He causes the earth and those who make their home on it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
13He performs great miracles, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of people.
14He also deceives those who make their home on the earth because of the miracles that he was permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who make their home on the earth to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword but lived.
15This beast was also given the ability to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast spoke and caused whoever did not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
16He also makes all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
17in order that no one may buy or sell unless he has the mark—the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18Here is wisdom: Let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, because it is the number of a man. His number is 666.