Revelation 13

1And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. # 13:1 Dn 7:3 It had ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten crowns, # 13:1 Or diadems,# 13:1 Rv 12:3 and on its heads were blasphemous names. # 13:1 Other mss read heads was a blasphemous name,# 13:1 Rv 17:3 2The beast I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. # 13:2 Dn 7:4–6 The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority. 3One of its heads appeared to be fatally wounded, but its fatal wound was healed.

The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast. # 13:3 Rv 17:8 4They worshiped the dragon # 13:4 Rv 12:3 because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? # 13:4 Ex 15:11; Is 46:5 Who is able to wage war against it? ”

5The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies. # 13:5 Dn 7:8,11,20 It was allowed to exercise authority # 13:5 Other mss read to wage war,# 13:5 Or to rule for forty-two months. # 13:5 Rv 11:2 6It began to speak # 13:6 Or He opened his mouth in blasphemies against God: to blaspheme his name and his dwelling — those who dwell in heaven. 7And it was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. # 13:7 Rv 12:17 It was also given authority # 13:7 Jr 27:6; Dn 7:6,14; Lk 4:6; Jn 19:11 over every tribe, people, language, and nation. # 13:7 Rv 5:9; 7:9; 11:9; 14:6 8All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book # 13:8 Or scroll of life # 13:8 Ex 32:32–33; Ps 69:28; Php 4:3; Rv 3:5; 17:8; 20:12,15; 21:27 of the Lamb who was slaughtered. # 13:8 Or written in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered from the foundation of the world,# 13:8 1Pt 1:19–20; Rv 5:6,12; 7:14

9If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen. # 13:9 Mt 11:15; Rv 2:7,11,17,19; 3:6,13,22

10If anyone is to be taken captive,

into captivity he goes.

If anyone is to be killed # 13:10 Other mss read anyone kills with a sword,

with a sword he will be killed. # 13:10 Jr 15:2; 43:11

This calls for endurance # 13:10 Or Here is the perseverance and faithfulness from the saints. # 13:10 Rv 14:12

The Beast from the Earth

11Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb, # 13:11 Or ram,# 13:11 Dn 8:3 but it spoke like a dragon. 12It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13It also performs great signs, # 13:13 Dt 13:1–3; Mk 13:22; 2Th 2:9–11 even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in front of people. # 13:13 1Kg 18:38; 2Kg 1:10; Lk 9:54 14It deceives those who live on the earth # 13:14 Rv 12:9 because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, # 13:14 2Th 2:9–12; Rv 19:20 telling those who live on the earth to make an image # 13:14 Or a statue, or a likeness of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15It was permitted to give breath # 13:15 Or a spirit, or life to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. # 13:15 Dn 3:5–6; Rv 20:4 16And it makes everyone — small and great, rich and poor, free and slave — to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, # 13:16 Rv 14:1,9,11; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4 17so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of its name.

18This calls for wisdom: # 13:18 Or Here is wisdom,# 13:18 Rv 17:9 Let the one who has understanding calculate # 13:18 Or count, or figure out the number of the beast, because it is the number of a person. Its number is 666. # 13:18 Other Gk mss read 616

Currently Selected:

Revelation 13: CSB

Highlight

Copy

Compare

Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in

Learn More About Christian Standard Bible

Hisgalus 13

1 # 13:1 CHAPTER 13 COULD BE TITLED: THE “NUREMBERG RALLIES” OF THE LITTLE MOUTH OF THE LITTLE HORN (Dan 7:8) WHO IS THE CHAYYAH (BEAST, ANTI-MOSHIACH) And I saw out of the yam (sea) a Chayyah (Beast, Anti-Moshiach) coming up, having eser (ten) karnayim (horns) and shiva (seven) heads and on the horns of it asarah (ten) diadems and on the heads of it there were names of Chillul Hashem gidufim (blasphemies).#13:1 Dan 7:1-6; 11:36 2And the Chayyah which I saw was like a namer and the feet of it as a dov and the mouth of it as the mouth of an aryeh and the Dragon NACHASH gave to the Chayyah its ko'ach and its Kes and its great samchut (authority). 3And one of its roshim (heads) seemed to have received a mortal wound and to have been slain, and the wound causing its mavet was healed, and kol ha'aretz marveled, following after the Chayyah. 4And they worshiped the Dragon NACHASH, because he gave his memshalah (governing authority) to the Chayyah, and they worshiped the Chayyah, saying, “Who is like the Chayyah?” and “Who is able to make war with it?”

5And a PEH (mouth) was given to the Chayyah saying haughty words and Chillul Hashem gidufim (blasphemies), and was given to it ko'ach to act for shnayim and arba'im (two and forty) chodashim (months).#13:5 Dan 7:8,11,20,25; 11:36 6And it opened the PEH#13:6 PEH in verses 5 and 6, see Dan 7:8,20 (mouth) of it in Chillul Hashem gidufim (blasphemies) against Hashem to blaspheme ha-Shem (the Name) of him and his Mishkan, that is, the ones tabernacling in Shomayim. 7And was given to it to make milchamah (war) with the Kedoshim and to overcome the Kedoshim, and was given to it samchut (authority) over every shevet (tribe) and am (people) and lashon (language) and goy (nation).#13:7 Dan 7:21 8And all the ones dwelling on ha'aretz (the earth) will worship the Chayyah (Beast, Anti-Moshiach), all the ones whose name has not been written in the Sefer HaChayyim of the SEH (Lamb)#13:8 Ex 12:3; Isa 53:7, Moshiach having been slain from lifnei hivvased tevel (before the foundation of the world). 9If anyone has an ear let him hear. 10If anyone is to go LA'SHVEE (into captivity), into LA'SHVEE (captivity) he goes. If anyone is to be killed by a cherev (sword), he by a cherev (sword) is to be killed. Here is the savlanut (patient endurance) and the emunah (faith) of the Kedoshim.#13:10 Jer 15:2; 43:11

11And I saw another Chayyah (Beast, the Navi Sheker, the False Prophet) coming up out of ha'aretz (the earth), and it had shtey karnayim (two horns) like a SEH, and it was speaking like a Dragon NACHASH. 12And all the samchut (authority) of the Chayyah harishonah (the first Beast, the Anti-Moshiach) it exercises on [the Anti-Moshiachʼs] behalf, and it causes ha'aretz (the earth) and the ones dwelling on it to worship the Chayyah harishonah (the first Beast) whose wound of death was healed. 13And it (the Navi Sheker, the False Prophet) does otot gedolim (great signs), even making eish (fire) come down out of Shomayim to ha'aretz (the earth) before Bnei Adam.#13:13 1Kgs 18:38; 2Kgs 1:10 14And it leads kol ha'aretz (all the earth) into hona'ah (deception) because of the otot (signs) which were given to it to perform before the Chayyah (Beast), telling the ones dwelling on ha'aretz (the earth) to make an Atzav#13:14 Atzav in verses 14 and 15, see 1Sm 31:9; Isa 21:9 (idol, image, PESEL, graven image) to the Chayyah (Anti-Moshiach) who has the wound of the cherev (sword) and yet came alive again. 15And it was given to it to give breath to the Atzav (idol, image, PESEL) of the Chayyah (Anti-Moshiach) that the Atzav (idol, image) of the Chayyah might even speak and might cause that as many as would not worship the Atzav (idol, image) of the Chayyah (Beast, Anti-Moshiach) to be killed and to die al kiddush ha-Shem.#13:15 Dan 3:3-6 16And it causes all, the Ketanim (small) and the Gedolim (great), both the oishir (rich) and aniyim (poor), the bnei Chorin (freedmen) and avadim (slaves), that to them should be given a tav (mark) on the yamin (right hand) and on the metsakh (forehead) of them,#13:16 Ezek 9:4 17And that no one should be able to buy or to sell except the one having the tav (mark), the name of the Chayyah (Beast, Anti-Moshiach) or the number of its name. 18Here is chochmah: the one having binah, let him do the gematria and get the mispar (number) of the Chayyah (Anti-Moshiach), for it is the mispar (number) of a man, and the mispar of it is SHESH ME'OT V'SHISHIM VASHESH (666).

THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE

Learn More About The Orthodox Jewish Bible