Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Parallel translations
- KJV And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- BSB Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:
- NKJV And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.
- NASB And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another.
- NLT Then four huge beasts came up out of the water, each different from the others.
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- Rev 13:1Then 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.
- Dan 7:17These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
- Dan 2:32–33As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
- Dan 7:4–8The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.
- Ezek 19:3–8She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
- Zech 6:1–8Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
- Ps 76:4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
- Dan 2:37–40You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;
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