Apocalypsis 13
1 Et stetit supra arenam maris. Et vidi de mari bestiam ascendentem, habentem capita septem, et cornua decem, et super cornua eius decem diademata, et super capita eius nomina blasphemiae.
Then the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten crowns, and on each of its heads was a blasphemous name.
2 Et bestia, quam vidi, similis erat pardo, et pedes eius sicut pedes ursi, et os eius sicut os leonis. Et dedit illi draco virtutem suam, et potestatem magnam.
This beast I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like a bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave his power to it, and his throne, and his great authority to rule.
3 Et vidi unum de capitibus suis quasi occisum in mortem: et plaga mortis eius curata est. Et admirata est universa terra post bestiam.
One of the beast's heads appeared to have been killed, but its fatal wound was healed. The whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.
4 Et adoraverunt draconem, qui dedit potestatem bestiae: et adoraverunt bestiam, dicentes: Quis similis bestiae? et quis poterit pugnare cum ea?
They also worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast. They worshiped the beast, too, and kept saying, “Who is like the beast?” and “Who can fight against it?”
5 Et datum est ei os loquens magna, et blasphemias: et data est ei potestas facere menses quadraginta duos.
The beast was given a mouth that could speak proud words and blasphemies. It was permitted to exercise authority for forty-two months.
6 Et aperuit os suum in blasphemias ad Deum, blasphemare nomen eius, et tabernaculum eius, et eos, qui in caelo habitant.
So the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God—blaspheming his name, the place where he lives, and those who live in heaven.
7 Et est datum illi bellum facere cum sanctis, et vincere eos. Et data est illi potestas in omnem tribum, et populum, et linguam, et gentem,
The beast was permitted to wage war with the saints and to conquer them. Also, authority was given to it over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
8 et adoraverunt eam omnes, qui inhabitant terram: quorum non sunt scripta nomina in Libro vitae Agni, qui occisus est ab origine mundi.
All who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written, since the creation of the world, in the Book of Life, which belongs to the Lamb, who had been slaughtered.
9 Si quis habet aurem, audiat.
If anyone has an ear, let him listen.
10 Qui in captivitatem duxerit, in captivitatem vadet: qui in gladio occiderit, oportet eum gladio occidi. Hic est patientia, et fides Sanctorum.
If anyone is to be taken into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. Here is a call for the patient endurance and faith of the saints.
11 Et vidi aliam bestiam ascendentem de terra, et habebat cornua duo similia Agni, et loquebatur sicut draco.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, and it spoke like a dragon.
12 Et potestatem prioris bestiae omnem faciebat in conspectu eius: et fecit terram, et habitantes in ea, adorare bestiam primam, cuius curata est plaga mortis.
It exercised all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and it made the earth and those who live on it worship the first beast—the one whose lethal wound had been healed.
13 Et fecit signa magna, ut etiam ignem faceret de caelo descendere in terram in conspectu hominum.
It performed mighty miracles. It even made fire come down on the earth from heaven in front of people.
14 Et seduxit habitantes in terra propter signa, quae data sunt illi facere in conspectu bestiae, dicens habitantibus in terra, ut faciant imaginem bestiae, quae habet plagam gladii, et vixit.
By the signs it was permitted to do, it deceived those who lived on the earth. It told them to make an image in honor of the beast that had the sword wound but lived.
15 Et datum est illi ut daret spiritum imagini bestiae, et ut loquatur imago bestiae: et faciat ut quicumque non adoraverint imaginem bestiae, occidantur.
It was permitted to give breath to the beast's image so that the image would even speak and cause all who refused to worship the beast to be killed.
16 Et faciet omnes pusillos, et magnos, et divites, et pauperes, et liberos, et servos habere characterem in dextera manu sua, aut in frontibus suis.
It also forced everyone, unimportant and mighty, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on the right hand or on the forehead.
17 et nequis possit emere, aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem, aut nomen bestiae, aut numerum nominis eius.
It was impossible for anyone to buy or sell unless he had the mark of the beast, that is, the number representing its name.
18 Hic sapientia est. Qui habet intellectum, computet numerum bestiae. Numerus enim hominis est: et numerus eius sexcenti sexaginta sex.
This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast. For it is the number of a human being. Its number is 666.
