Exodus 12:7
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7 They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
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Revelation 7:2-4
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2 Then I saw another angel come up from the East,[a] holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, 3 “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”(A) 4 I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal, one hundred and forty-four thousand marked[b] from every tribe of the Israelites:(B)
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- 7:2 East: literally, “rising of the sun.” The east was considered the source of light and the place of paradise (Gn 2:8). Seal: whatever was marked by the impression of one’s signet ring belonged to that person and was under his protection.
- 7:4–9 One hundred and forty-four thousand: the square of twelve (the number of Israel’s tribes) multiplied by a thousand, symbolic of the new Israel (cf. Rev 14:1–5; Gal 6:16; Jas 1:1) that embraces people from every nation, race, people, and tongue (Rev 7:9).
Revelation 13:16
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16 It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads,(A)
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