Revelation 13:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.

New Living Translation
Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.

English Standard Version
And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

Berean Study Bible
The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.

New American Standard Bible
A mouth was given to him speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

NASB 1995
There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

NASB 1977
And there was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies; and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

Amplified Bible
And the beast was given a mouth (the power of speech), uttering great things and arrogant and blasphemous words, and he was given freedom and authority to act and to do as he pleased for forty-two months (three and a half years).

Christian Standard Bible
The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies. It was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.

Contemporary English Version
The beast was allowed to brag and claim to be God, and for 42 months it was allowed to rule.

Good News Translation
The beast was allowed to make proud claims which were insulting to God, and it was permitted to have authority for forty-two months.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and insulting things. It was given authority to act for 42 months.

International Standard Version
The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and blasphemous things, and it was given authority for 42 months.

NET Bible
The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

New King James Version
And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.

King James 2000 Bible
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

New Heart English Bible
A mouth was given to him speaking proud words and blasphemies. There was given to him authority to act for forty-two months.

World English Bible
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

American King James Version
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to continue forty and two months.

American Standard Version
and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.

A Faithful Version
And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to him; and authority was given to him to continue for forty-two months.

Darby Bible Translation
And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue its career forty-two months.

English Revised Version
and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to continue forty and two months.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth, that spake great thynges and blasphemies, and power was geuen vnto hym, to do .xlij. monethes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And there was geuen vnto him a mouth to speake greate thinges & blasphemies, and power was geuen vnto him, to do xlij. monethes.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And ther was a mouth geve vnto him that spake great thinges and blasphemies and power was geve vnto him to do xlii. Monethes
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and slanders, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,

Berean Literal Bible
And a mouth was given to it, speaking great things and blasphemy, and it was given authority to act forty and two months.

Young's Literal Translation
And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,

Smith's Literal Translation
And a mouth was given him speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to make war forty-two months.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to it; and the authority to act was given to it for forty and two months.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do two and forty months.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies. And authority was given to him to act for forty-two months.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And a mouth that speaks great things and blasphemy was given to it, and authority was given to it to work 42 months.

Lamsa Bible
And there was given to him a mouth that he might utter great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to make war for forty and two months.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And there was given him a mouth that spoke great things and impious words; and authority was given to him to continue forty-two months.

Godbey New Testament
and a mouth was given to him speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given unto him to prevail forty-two months.

Haweis New Testament
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to make war forty-two months.

Mace New Testament
there was given to him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemy; and power was given to him for two and forty months.

Weymouth New Testament
And there was given him a mouth full of boastful and blasphemous words; and liberty of action was granted him for forty-two months.

Worrell New Testament
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given him to work forty-two months.

Worsley New Testament
And there was given him a mouth speaking great and blasphemous things, and power was given him to make war forty two months.
















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