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21 lines
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# General Information:
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This verse is a break from John's account of his vision. Here he gives another warning to the people reading his account.
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# This calls for wisdom
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"Wisdom is needed" or "You need to be wise about this"
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# If anyone has insight
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The word "insight" can be translated with the verb "understand." Alternate translation: "If anyone is able to understand things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# let him calculate the number of the beast
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"he should discern what the number of the beast means" or "he should figure out what the number of the beast means"
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# is the number of a human being
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Possible meanings are 1) the number represents one person or 2) the number represents all of humanity.
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