³ And four great beasts ^(A)came up from the sea, each different from the other.

The Beast from the Sea

13 Then ^[a]I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw ^(A)a beast rising up out of the sea, ^(B)having ^[b]seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a ^(C)blasphemous name.

¹⁷ ‘Those great beasts, which are four, are four ^[a]kings which arise out of the earth.

⁴ The first was ^(A)like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a ^(B)man’s heart was given to it.

^5 (C)“And suddenly another beast, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: ‘Arise, devour much flesh!’

⁶ “After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had ^(D)four heads, and dominion was given to it.

⁷ “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, ^(E)a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, ^(F)and it had ten horns. ⁸ I was considering the horns, and ^(G)there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes ^(H)of a man, ^(I)and a mouth speaking ^[a]pompous words.

^32 (A)This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and ^[a]thighs of bronze, ³³ its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of ^[b]clay.