Legacy Standard Bible

Revelation 13:11-18

The Beast from the Earth

11Then aI saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had btwo horns like a lamb and he was speaking as a cdragon. 12And he aexercises all the authority of the first beast 1,bin his presence. And he makes cthe earth and those who dwell in it to dworship the first beast, whose efatal wound was healed. 13And he adoes great signs, so that he even makes bfire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. 14And he adeceives bthose who dwell on the earth because of cthe signs which were given to him to do 1,din the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the ewound of the sword and has come to life. 15And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even 1speak and cause aas many as do not bworship the image of the beast to be killed. 16And he causes all, athe small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, that they 1be given a bmark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17and that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the amark, either bthe name of the beast or cthe number of his name. 18aHere is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number bof man; and his number is 1666.