1 The dragon "stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?"5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.7 It was given power to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast —all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. [^2]9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.10 "If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed "with the sword, with the sword they will be killed." "This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God's people.11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people.14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. "That number is 666.

1 Et vidi de mari bestiam ascendentem habentem capita septem, et cornua decem, et super cornua ejus decem diademata, et super capita ejus nomina blasphemi. 2 Et bestia, quam vidi, similis erat pardo, et pedes ejus sicut pedes ursi, et os ejus sicut os leonis. Et dedit illi draco virtutem suam, et potestatem magnam. 3 Et vidi unum de capitibus suis quasi occisum in mortem : et plaga mortis ejus curata est. Et admirata est universa terra post bestiam. 4 Et adoraverunt draconem, qui dedit potestatem besti : et adoraverunt bestiam, dicentes : Quis similis besti ? et quis poterit pugnare cum ea ? 5 Et datum est ei os loquens magna et blasphemias : et data est ei potestas facere menses quadraginta duos. 6 Et aperuit os suum in blasphemias ad Deum, blasphemare nomen ejus, et tabernaculum ejus, et eos qui in clo habitant. 7 Et est datum illi bellum facere cum sanctis, et vincere eos. Et data est illi potestas in omnem tribum, et populum, et linguam, et gentem, 8 et adoraverunt eam omnes, qui inhabitant terram : quorum non sunt scripta nomina in libro vit Agni, qui occisus est ab origine mundi. 9 Si quis habet aurem, audiat. 10 Qui in captivitatem duxerit, in captivitatem vadet : qui in gladio occiderit, oportet eum gladio occidi. Hic est patientia, et fides sanctorum.11 Et vidi aliam bestiam ascendentem de terra, et habebat cornua duo similia Agni, et loquebatur sicut draco. 12 Et potestatem prioris besti omnem faciebat in conspectu ejus : et fecit terram, et habitantes in ea, adorare bestiam primam, cujus curata est plaga mortis. 13 Et fecit signa magna, ut etiam ignem faceret de clo descendere in terram in conspectu hominum. 14 Et seduxit habitantes in terra propter signa, qu data sunt illi facere in conspectu besti, dicens habitantibus in terra, ut faciant imaginem besti, qu habet plagam gladii, et vixit. 15 Et datum est illi ut daret spiritum imagini besti, et ut loquatur imago besti : et faciat ut quicumque non adoraverint imaginem besti, occidantur. 16 Et faciet omnes pusillos, et magnos, et divites, et pauperes, et liberos, et servos habere caracterem in dextera manu sua, aut in frontibus suis : 17 et nequis possit emere, aut vendere, nisi qui habet caracterem, aut nomen besti, aut numerum nominis ejus. 18 Hic sapientia est. Qui habet intellectum, computet numerum besti. Numerus enim hominis est : et numerus ejus sexcenti sexaginta sex.