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.
KJV
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;
And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.
About this book
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About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both