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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3One of the heads of the beast appeared to be mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He who has an ear, let him hear: |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And this beast exercised all the authority of the first beast and caused the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And the second beast performed great signs to cause even fire from heaven to come down to earth in the presence of the people. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666. |
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