Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
⛓ Read Daniel 7 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Volume and recurrence: the beast 'coming up out of the sea' replays Dan 7:3 'four great beasts came up from the sea' (LXX/Theod. anabainonta ek tes thalasses); John composites Daniel's four into one. Availability and recurrence very strong across Rev 13.
High confidence'Four great beasts came up from the sea' supplies the beast that 'comes up out of the abyss'; Daniel's sea/deep becomes John's abyss as the chaos-source of imperial beasts. Hays: volume, recurrence across Rev 11:7; 13:1; 17:8. LXX/Theodotion Dan 7:3.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The beasts 'come up' from the sea/deep; Rev's 'beast that comes up out of the abyss' fuses this Danielic ascent-of-the-beast with the Abyss motif. Supports the beast's provenance imagery.
Medium confidence