Revelation 13:8

13:8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, ¹  everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world ²  in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed. ³ 

Revelation 21:19

21:19 The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated ⁴  with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, ⁵  the fourth emerald,

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¹ tn Grk “it”; the referent (the beast) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn The prepositional phrase “since the foundation of the world” is traditionally translated as a modifier of the immediately preceding phrase in the Greek text, “the Lamb who was killed” (so also G. B. Caird, Revelation [HNTC], 168), but it is more likely that the phrase “since the foundation of the world” modifies the verb “written” (as translated above). Confirmation of this can be found in Rev 17:8 where the phrase “written in the book of life since the foundation of the world” occurs with no ambiguity.

³ tn Or “slaughtered”; traditionally, “slain.”

⁴ tn The perfect participle here has been translated as an intensive (resultative) perfect.

⁵ sn Agate (also called chalcedony) is a semiprecious stone usually milky or gray in color (L&N 2.32).