Discovery BoxRevelation 7:4 
Context7:4 Now 1 I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, 2 one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from all 3 the tribes of the people of Israel: 4
Revelation 21:12
Context21:12 It has 5 a massive, high wall 6 with twelve gates, 7 with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel 8 are written on the gates. 9
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the introduction of new but related material.
2 tn Grk “who were sealed.”
3 tn Normally, “every,” but since 144,000 is the total number, “all” is clearer here.
4 tn Grk “the sons of Israel,” normally an idiom for the Israelites as an ethnic entity (L&N 11.58). However, many scholars understand the expression in this context to refer to Christians rather than ethnic Israelites.
5 tn Grk “jasper, having.” Here a new sentence was started in the translation.
6 tn Grk “a (city) wall great and high.”
7 tn On this term BDAG 897 s.v. πυλών 1 states, “gate, esp. of the large, impressive gateways at the entrance of temples and palaces…of the entrances of the heavenly Jerusalem…οἱ πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν its entrances shall never be shut Rv 21:25; cp. vss. 12ab, 13abcd, 15, 21ab; 22:14.”
8 tn Grk “of the sons of Israel.” The translation “nation of Israel” is given in L&N 11.58.
9 tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the gates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
