Revelation 13
13
The Beast from the Sea
1And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. # Dn 7:3 He # The beasts in Rv 13:1,11 are customarily referred to as “he” or “him” rather than “it.” The Gk word for a beast (therion) is grammatically neuter. had 10 horns and seven heads. On his horns were 10 diadems, # Rv 12:3 and on his heads were blasphemous names. # Other mss read heads was a blasphemous name # Rv 17:3 2The beast I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like a bear’s, and his mouth was like a lion’s mouth. # Dn 7:4-6 The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3One of his heads appeared to be fatally wounded, # Lit be slain to death but his fatal wound was healed. The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast. # Lit amazed after the beast # Rv 17:8 4They worshiped the dragon # Rv 12:3 because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? # Ex 15:11; Is 46:5 Who is able to wage war against him? ”
5A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. # Dn 7:8,11,20 He was also given authority to act # Other mss read wage war # Or to rule for 42 months. # Rv 11:2 6He began to speak # Lit He opened his mouth in blasphemies against God: to blaspheme His name and His dwelling — those who dwell in heaven. 7And he was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. # Rv 12:17 He was also given authority # Jr 27:6; Dn 7:6,14; Lk 4:6; Jn 19:11 over every tribe, people, language, and nation. # Rv 5:9; 7:9; 11:9; 14:6 8All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book # Or scroll of life # 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. # Or written in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered from the foundation of the world # 1Pt 1:19-20; Rv 5:6,12; 7:14
9If anyone has an ear, he should listen: # Mt 11:15; Rv 2:7,11,17,19; 3:6,13,22
10If anyone is destined for captivity,
into captivity he goes.
If anyone is to be killed # Other mss read anyone kills with a sword,
with a sword he will be killed. # Jr 15:2; 43:11
This demands the perseverance # Lit Here is the perseverance and faith of the saints. # Rv 14:12
The Beast from the Earth
11Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb, # Or ram # Dn 8:3 but he sounded like a dragon. 12He exercises all the authority of the first beast on his behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13He also performs great signs, # 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. # 1Kg 18:38; 2Kg 1:10; Lk 9:54 14He deceives those who live on the earth # Rv 12:9 because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, # 2Th 2:9-12; Rv 19:20 telling those who live on the earth to make an image # Or statue, or likeness of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived. 15He was permitted to give a spirit # Or give breath, or give 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. # Dn 3:5-6; Rv 20:4 16And he requires everyone — small and great, rich and poor, free and slave — to be given a mark # Or stamp, or brand on his right hand or on his forehead, # 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 his name.
18Here is wisdom: # Or This calls for wisdom # Rv 17:9 The one who has understanding must calculate # Or count, or figure out the number of the beast, because it is the number of a man. # Or is a man’s number, or is the number of a person His number is 666. # Other Gk mss read 616
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Ḥazon (Revelation) 13
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1And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads names of blasphemy.
2And the beast I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.
3And I saw one of his heads, as having been slain to death, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the earth marvelled after the beast.
4And they worshipped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to fight with him?”
5And he was given a mouth speaking great matters and blasphemies, and he was given authority to do so forty-two months.
6And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against Elohim, to blaspheme His Name, and His Tent, and those dwelling in the heaven.
7And it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation.
8And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him.
9If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
10He who brings into captivity shall go into captivity, he who kills with the sword has to be killed with the sword.#Jer. 15:2; Jer. 43:11#See also Gen. 9:6. Compare Rev. 13 with Dan. 7. Here is the endurance and the belief of the set-apart ones.
11And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
12And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13And he does great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from the heaven on the earth before men.
14And he leads astray those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword, yet lived.
15And there was given to him to give spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause to be killed as many as would not worship the image of the beast.
16And he causes all, both small and great, and rich and poor, and free and slave, to be given a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,
17and that no one should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18Here is the wisdom! He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred and sixty six.#Some ancient manuscripts have 616 instead of 666.
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