The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.
He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze; he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long.
The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.