Revelation 21:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He measured its wall also–144 cubits (about 72 yards) by a man's measure [of a cubit from his elbow to his third fingertip], which is [the measure] of the angel.

American Standard Version (1901)

And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

Common English Bible

He also measured the thickness of its wall. It was two hundred sixteen feet thick, as a person—or rather, an angel—measures things.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he measured its wall as one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an Angel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Revelation 21:17 Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

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 his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.

Revelation 14:3

and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, even they that had been purchased out of the earth.

Revelation 21:16

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal.

Revelation 21:9

And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:4

And I heard the number of them which were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel.