13. It performed great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of everyone.
14. It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived.
15. It was then permitted to breathe life into the beast’s image, so that the beast’s image could speak and [could] have anyone who did not worship it put to death.
16. It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads,