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[1][13:1] Then I steppedⓘ onto the sand of the sea. [13:2] And I saw a beastⓘ come out of the sea,ⓘ and it had seven heads and ten horns, and on its horns ten crowns, and on its heads, names of slander and mockery.
[2][13:3] The beast that I saw was like a horse; its legs and feet like the legs and feet of bears, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragonⓘ gave it (the beast) his power and his throne, military strengthⓘ and great courage.ⓘ
[3][13:4] I saw one of its heads resembling a wound leading to death, but the wound was healed. So, the whole world was astonished by the beast.
[4][13:5] Those praying to the dragonⓘ were giving power and dominion to the beast.ⓘ And those praying said, "Who is like this beast and who is able to battleⓘ with it?"
[5][13:6] The beast was permitted to open its mouth to speak words of wonders and cursing until imprisoned for the time of forty-two months.
[6][13:7] It opened its mouth to curse against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and against those living in the heavens.
[7][13:8] It was permitted to battle with the holy people but prevail over all the peoples and nations.
[8][13:9] All those living on the earth prayed to it—all whose names not written in the Record of Lives belonging to the slain Lamb, who was from the beginning of the creation of the world.
[9][13:10] He who has ears, hear!
[10][13:11] If one drives another into captivity, he will go into captivity, and if one kills a soul by the sword, he will be killed by the sword.ⓘ But with the holy ones there is hope and faith!
[11][13:12]Then I saw another beast who came out of the ground. It had two horns like a lamb, and it was speaking like the dragonⓘ.
[12][13:13] It did great wonders before the first beast. And it made those dwelling on the ground pray368 to the first beast, whose wounds were healed.
[13][13:14] It made fire fall from the heavens before mankind.
[14][13:15] It inflamed the children of mankind with signs and wonders. And it told those dwelling on the earth to make an idolⓘ of the beast, whose wounds from the sword were healed.
[15][13:16] And it was permitted to give to the idolⓘ of the beast a spirit and a soul, so that it would be able to speak. And whoever did not want to prayⓘ to the idol of the beast would be killed.
[16][13:17] It made them all—the great and the small, the wealthy and the poor, the slaves and the free—take a signⓘⓘ, in his right hand or in their foreheads,
[17][13:18] so that the only one who has the sign in his hands,ⓘ or forehead, or the name belonging to the beast, or the number of its name would be able to buy or sell.
[18][13:19] Here is wisdom and understanding: Appoint one who understands, to calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number belonging to a person, for you will discover the sum is six hundred and sixty-six.
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