Revelation 21:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ The city has four equal sides, its length the same as its width, and he measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the city lieth in a foursquare, 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 Cross References

Ezekiel 41:4

He measured the depth of the room, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Ezekiel 42:20

He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to make a separation between the holy and the common.

Ezekiel 48:35

The circumference of the city shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.

Revelation 21:15

The angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.

Revelation 21:17

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