The oldest surviving Book of Revelation says the beast's number is 616
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Boing Boing reports on a finding from twenty-oh-five: the oldest surviving manuscript of the Book of Revelation's beast passage contains six-sixteen, not six-sixty-six. That ancient fragment, papyrus one-fifteen, predates most later manuscripts that feature the more familiar number—the one that captured imaginations in heavy metal, horror movies, and roadside apocalypse lore.
Source: https://boingboing.net/2026/07/27/616-number-of-the-beast.html
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