Revelation 21:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits by human measurement, which the angel was using.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)

Revelation 13:18

This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number for a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six.

Revelation 14:3

and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who have been redeemed from the earth.

Revelation 21:16

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.

Revelation 21:9

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Revelation 7:4

And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the people of Israel: