What is the number of the beast?

616.

For 2,000 years, 666 has been the symbol of the dreaded Anti-Christ, who will come to rule the world before the Last Judgment. For many, it’s an unlucky number: even the European Parliament leaves seat number 666 vacant.

The number is from revelation, the last and strangest book in the Bible: “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.”

But it’s a wrong number. In 2005, a new translation of the earliest known copy of the Book of Revelation clearly shows it to be 616 not 666.

The fear of the number 666 is known as Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Fear of the number 616 is Hexakosioidekahexaphobia.

The numbers on a roulette wheel added together come to 666.