Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Parallel translations
- KJV And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
- BSB This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
- NKJV “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
- NASB Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman sits,
- NLT “This calls for a mind with understanding: The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. They also represent seven kings.
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- Rev 13:18Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
- Rev 17:7The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
- Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
- Matt 24:15“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
- Rev 17:3He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
- 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.
- Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
- Dan 12:8–10I heard, but I didn’t understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
- Rev 17:18The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
- Matt 13:11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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