15 The one who spoke with me had a (a)gold measuring (A)rod to measure the city, and its (B)gates and its wall. 16 The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the (b)rod, (c)fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal. 17 And he measured its wall, (d)seventy-two yards, according to (C)human (e)measurements, which are also (D)angelic measurements.

Footnotes:

a. Revelation 21:15: ['Lit ', measure, a gold reed]
b. Revelation 21:16: ['Lit ', reed]
c. Revelation 21:16: ['Lit ', twelve thousand stadia, '; a stadion was approx 600 ft']
d. Revelation 21:17: ['Lit ', one hundred forty-four cubits]
e. Revelation 21:17: ['Lit ', measure]

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