◄ Revelation 17:11 ►
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Good News Translation
And the beast that was once alive, but lives no longer, is itself an eighth king who is one of the seven and is going off to be destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.

Contemporary English Version
You also saw a beast that used to be and no longer is. That beast is one of the seven kings who will return as the eighth king, but only to be destroyed.

New American Bible
The beast that existed once but exists no longer is an eighth king, but really belongs to the seven and is headed for destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the beast which was and is not: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the beast which was and is not: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction.

that was.

Revelation 17:8 The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants on the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is not.

Context
The Mystery Explained
…10Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he is come, he must remain a short time. 11And the beast which was and is not: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction. 12And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour after the beast.…
Cross References
Revelation 13:3
And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast.

Revelation 13:10
He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Revelation 13:12
And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight. And he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first beast, whose wound to death was healed.

Revelation 17:8
The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants on the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is not.

Revelation 17:10
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