◄ Revelation 21:17 ►
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Good News Translation
The angel also measured the wall, and it was 216 feet high, according to the standard unit of measure which he was using.

New Revised Standard Version
He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits by human measurement, which the angel was using.

Contemporary English Version
Then the angel measured the wall, and by our measurements it was about 60 meters high.

New American Bible
He also measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits according to the standard unit of measurement the angel used.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.

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Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.

Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne and before the four living creatures and the ancients: and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand who were purchased from the earth.

Context
The New Jerusalem
…16And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal. 17And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel. 18And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold like to clear glass.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.

Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.

Revelation 21:9
And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

Revelation 21:16
And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

Revelation 21:16
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