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16 The city is laid out as a square. Its length and width are equal. He measured the city with the measuring rod: 12,000 stadia.[a] Its length, width, and height are equal. 17 He also measured its wall by human measurement, which was what the angel used: 144 cubits.

18 The wall is made of jasper, and the city is pure gold, like pure glass.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:16 The measurements are not converted to modern equivalents because that would make it more difficult to recognize the symbolical significance of the original numbers.