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Revelation 21:12–21

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12It hash a great and high wall that has twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on the gates which arei of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel—13on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates. 14And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15And the one who spoke with me was holding a golden measuring rod in order that he could measure the city and its gates and its wall. 16And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as its width. And he measured the city with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia;j the length and the width and the height of it are equal. 17And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubitsk according to human measurel, which is the angel’s. 18And the material of its wall is jasper, and the city is pure gold, similar in appearance to pure glass. 19The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each one of the gates was from a single pearl. And the street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

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Footnotes

  1. hLiterally “having,” referring back to the city mentioned in v. 11
  2. iSome manuscripts have “which are the names”
  3. jOr “two thousand two hundred kilometers”; or “fourteen hundred miles” (a stade was a unit of length about 185 meters or 607 feet)
  4. kThis number in cubits amounts to 12 times 12; it would be about 65 meters (216 feet)
  5. lLiterally “according to the measure of a man”