Revelation 21:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁶ Now the city is laid out as a perfect square; its length is the same as its width. So, he measured the city with the stick [and found it to be] fifteen hundred miles each way; its length and width and height all being the same.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The city lies in a square, its length being the same as its width. And he measured the city with his reed–12,000 stadia (about 1,500 miles); its length and width and height are the same.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Now the city was laid out as a square. Its length was the same as its width. He measured the city with the rod, and it was fifteen hundred miles. Its length and width and height were equal.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And the city is laid out as a square, and so its length is as great as the width. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand stadia, and its length and height and breadth were equal.

Revelation 21:16 Cross References

Revelation 21:15

And the angel who spoke to me [See verse 9] had a golden measuring stick with which to measure the city, its gates and its wall.

Revelation 21:17

And he measured its wall [and found it to be] two hundred and sixteen feet [high], according to human measurements which the angel was using.