An image of the Beast is created and given life/breath, compelling all to worship it or face death. Enforced through technological and supernatural means.
εἰκών (eikōn, G1504); πνεῦμα (pneuma, G4151); προσκυνέω (proskyneō, G4352)
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
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And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
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