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Bible Verses About Six Hundred Sixty-Six And The Beast

Early Christian writers treated 666 as the beast’s number from Revelation and linked it to the Antichrist. Irenaeus in the second century says the number is six hundred and sixty-six and warns that some copies had altered readings, while Hippolytus in the third century also quotes the beast passage and explains the number as the beast’s hidden name. Later writers such as Cyprian and Victorinus keep reading the beast as a real end-time power tied to worship, the mark, and persecution.

The main evidence is broad and consistent on the number and the beast, but the exact name behind 666 is mixed, with Irenaeus offering possible names without certainty.

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Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Primary Bible passage for 666 in Revelation 13:18

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Bible passage on buying and selling with the beast's mark

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

Bible passage for mark on hand or forehead

The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

Bible passage on receiving the beast's mark

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Bible text of Revelation 13:1 beast from the sea

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

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And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

Bible text of Revelation 13:5 beast blasphemy and months

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

Bible text of Revelation 13:3 healed wound and global following

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

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And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

Bible text of Revelation 13:2 beast imagery

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Bible passage for the image and refusal to worship

And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Bible text of Revelation 17:11 beast of the seven

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Bible text of the second beast from the earth

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Bible text of Revelation 17:3 scarlet beast

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

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Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

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The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Bible text of Revelation 17:8 beast from the pit

After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Bible text of Daniel 7:7 beast and ten horns

And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.