1And I saw a beast going up of the sea, having seven heads, and ten horns; and on his horns ten diadems, and on his heads the names [or the name] of blasphemy.

2And the beast whom I saw, was like a [leo] pard, and his feet as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave his virtue and great power to him.

3And I saw one of his heads, as slain into death; and the wound of his death was cured [or healed]. And all the earth wondered after the beast.

4And they worshipped the dragon, that gave power to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, and said, Who is like to the beast, and who shall be able to fight with it?

5And a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies, was given to it; and power was given to it, to do two and forty months.

6And it opened his mouth into blasphemies to God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7And it was given to him to make battle with saints, and to overcome them; and power was given to him into each lineage, and people, and language, and folk.

8And all men worshipped it, that dwell in earth, whose names be not written in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain from the beginning of the world.

9If any man hath ears, hear he.

10He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity; he that slayeth with sword, it behooveth him to be slain with sword. This is the patience and the faith of saints.

11And I saw another beast going up from the earth, and it had two horns, like the lamb; and it spake as the dragon,

12and [it] did all the power of the former beast, in his sight. And it made the earth, and men dwelling in it, to worship the first beast, whose wound of death was cured [or healed].

13And it did great signs, that also it made fire to come down from heaven to the earth, in the sight of all men.

14And it deceiveth men, that dwell in earth, for signs which be given to it to do in the sight of the beast; saying to men that dwell in earth, that they make an image of the beast, that hath the wound of [a] sword, and lived.

15And it was given to him, that he should give [a] spirit to the image of the beast, and that the image of the beast speak. And he shall make, that whoever honour not the image of the beast, be slain.

16And he shall make all, small and great, rich and poor, free men and bondmen, to have a character, either mark, in their right hand, either in their foreheads;

17that no man may buy, either sell, but they have the character, either the name of the beast, either the number of his name.

18Here is wisdom; he that hath understanding, account the number of the beast; for it is the number of man, and his number is six hundred sixty and six.