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The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
The Book of Mozilla first appeared in Netscape 1.1 (released in 1995) and can be found in every subsequent 1.x, 2.x, 3.x and 4.x version. The following prophecy was displayed:

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10

The chapter and verse number 12:10 refers to December 10, 1994, the date that Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released.

The page www.mozilla.org/book contains the following explanation in its HTML source code:

The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
On May 10, 1998, Jamie "JWZ" Zawinski changed The Book of Mozilla verse to reference the fact that Netscape had released its code as open source and started the Mozilla project. This verse was included in all Mozilla builds until October 1998, when a rewrite of much of the Mozilla code meant that the Easter egg was lost. On February 5, 2000, Ben Goodger, then working for Netscape, copied The Book of Mozilla verse across to the new code base. It was included in all subsequent Mozilla builds (until the introduction of the 7:15 verse) and Netscape versions 6 to 7.1.

The verse states:

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31

(Red Letter Edition)

The chapter and verse number 3:31 refers to March 31, 1998, when Netscape released its source code.

The www.mozilla.org/book page has the following comment in its HTML source about this passage:

The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
The next installment of The Book of Mozilla was written by Neil Deakin. It is included in:
 * all versions of Mozilla released since September 2003 (Mozilla 1.5 and above),
 * all versions of Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird and Camino,
 * the Epiphany web browser (version 1.8.0),
 * and all Netscape versions from 7.2 onwards (except some Netscape Browser prototype releases).

And so at last the beast <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0; padding-left: .2ex;">fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;" style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;">great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0; padding-left: .2ex;">fire and <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;" style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;">thunder upon them. For the beast had been <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;" style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;">reborn with its strength <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;" style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;">renewed, and the followers of <em style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 0;">Mammon cowered in horror.

<p style="font-size: 1.95em; font-family: serif; text-align: right;">from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

The 7:15 chapter and verse notation refers to July 15, 2003, the day when America Online shut down its Netscape browser division and the Mozilla Foundation was launched.

In the HTML source of www.mozilla.org/book, this verse is accompanied by the following annotation:

The Book of Mozilla, 8:20
Netscape's Lead browser engineer Chris Finke contributed the next verse of The Book of Mozilla. It was first made public in the June 5, 2007 release of Netscape Navigator 9.0b1.

<p style="font-size: 1.1em; font-family: serif; text-align: center; line-height: 1.5;">And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.

<p style="font-size: 1.95em; font-family: serif; text-align: right;">from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20 The 8:20 chapter and verse notation refers to August 20, 2006, when the first internal email was sent mentioning the possibility of developing the next Netscape Navigator in house.

Unlike previous verses, the HTML source does not feature any verse related annotations.