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Technically it's not a mistranslation, but a textual variant, meaning that one or the other appeared in different manuscripts. But whatever you want to call it, most biblical and archeological scholars today agree that 666 is the correct one, even though the earliest surviving manuscript (papyrus fragment P115) has 616. In fact the church has been aware of this textual variation since around the late 1st Century / early 2nd Century.It's not really. I mean, yes, in the game it is. But 666 is a mistranslation. The actual number, as written in the earliest surviving Greek version of Revelations, is 616.