The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished when they[a] see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present.

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  1. Revelation 17:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“see”) which is understood as temporal

And all those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name is not written[a] from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

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  1. Revelation 13:8 Literally “of whom his name is not written”

And one of its heads appeared as though slaughtered to death, and its fatal wound[a] had been healed. And the whole earth was astonished and followed after the beast.

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  1. Revelation 13:3 Literally “wound of death”