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Revelation 21:17

15 The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

16 The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

19 The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

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BSB
And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
KJV
And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
WEB
Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
ASV
And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
DARBY
And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.
BLB
And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of man, that is, of the angel.
ÅB
Og han målte dens mur: hundre og fire og førti alen, etter menneskemål, som og er engle-mål.
OTB
Han målte dens mur, og den var 144 alen tykk etter menneskelig mål, som også er englemål.
B1930
Og han målte dens mur: hundre og fire og firti alen, efter menneskemål, som og er engle-mål.

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  • Deuteronomy 3:11

    (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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  • Revelation 21:9

    Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

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  • Revelation 13:18

    Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.

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  • Revelation 7:4

    And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:

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  • Revelation 14:3

    And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

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