Revelation 13:11-18

Worldwide English (New Testament)

¹¹ Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb but talked like a dragon.

¹² It uses all the power of the first beast and stands with it. It makes all the earth and those who live on it worship the first beast. That was the beast whose bad cut was healed.

¹³ The second beast does wonderful things. It even makes fire fall from the sky to the earth for everyone to see.

¹⁴ It fools the people who live on earth by the wonderful things which it has been given power to do, while the first beast looks on. It tells the people on earth to make an idol like the first beast that was cut by the big knife but lived.

¹⁵ It was given power to make the idol of the beast live. The idol of the beast could speak and command all those who would not worship the idol to be killed.

¹⁶ It makes all the people take a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads. That means all people, those who are great and those who are not great, the poor, free men, and slaves.

¹⁷ No one could buy or sell anything if he did not have this mark. This mark is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

¹⁸ Here wisdom is needed. If a person understands, he should count the number of the beast. It is the number of a man's name. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.