“Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.