Wahyu 12:9

12:9 So ¹  that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

Wahyu 13:14

13:14 and, by the signs he was permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, he deceived those who live on the earth. He told ²  those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had been wounded by the sword, but still lived.

Wahyu 20:8

20:8 and will go out to deceive ³  the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, ⁴  to bring them together for the battle. They are as numerous as the grains of sand in the sea. ⁵ 

[12:9]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the war in heaven.

[13:14]  ² tn Grk “earth, telling.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek.

[13:14]  sn He told followed by an infinitive (“to make an image…”) is sufficiently ambiguous in Greek that it could be taken as “he ordered” (so NIV) or “he persuaded” (so REB).

[20:8]  ³ tn Or “mislead.”

[20:8]  ⁴ sn The battle with Gog and Magog is described in the OT in Ezek 38:1-39:20.

[20:8]  ⁵ tn Grk “of whom the number of them [is] like the sand of the sea” (an allusion to Isa 10:22).