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12 having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and on the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13 On the east were three gates, and on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And the one speaking with me had a golden measuring reed, so that he might measure the city and its gates and its wall. 16 And the city lies foursquare, and its length the same as also the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand stadia. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of man, that is, of the angel. 18 And the structure of its wall was jasper, and the city pure gold, like clear glass, 19 the foundations of the wall of the city adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates respectively was of one pearl, and the street of the city pure gold, transparent as glass. 22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb. 23 And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 And the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. 25 And its gates shall never be shut by day, for there will be no night there. 26 And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 And anything defiling, and those practicing abomination and a lie, never shall enter into it, only those written in the Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:12-27, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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