When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.
It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed --
The city lies foursquare; its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.[4] Its length and width and height are equal.