666 or 616 Beast Number?

In Revelation 13:18, the infamous "Number of the Beast" has long been read as 666, but some ancient manuscripts actually record it as 616. Scholars suggest the shift may stem from early transcription errors or numeric symbol confusion in ancient Greek. That means the iconic "mark of the beast" might never have been 666 at all, and our cultural obsession with that number could be based on a simple mistake.

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