and the sea.
007:003 "Injure neither land nor sea nor trees," he said, "until we
have sealed the bondservants of our God upon their foreheads."
007:004 When the sealing was finished, I heard how many were
sealed out of the tribes of the descendants of Israel.
They were 144,000.
007:005 Of the tribe of Judah, 12,000 were sealed; Of the tribe
of Reuben, 12,000; Of the tribe of Gad, 12,000;
007:006 Of the tribe of Asher, 12,000; Of the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000;
Of the tribe of Manasseh, 12,000;
007:007 Of the tribe of Symeon, 12,000; Of the tribe of Levi, 12,000;
Of the tribe of Issachar, 12,000;
007:008 Of the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000; Of the tribe of Joseph, 12,000;
Of the tribe of Benjamin, 12,000.
007:009 After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was
impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation
and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before
the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes,
and carrying palm-branches in their hands.
007:010 In loud voices they were exclaiming, "It is to our God who is seated
on the throne, and to the Lamb, that we owe our salvation!"
007:011 All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne
and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they
fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God.
007:012 "Even so!" they cried: "The blessing and the glory
and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the power
and the might are to be ascribed to our God, until the Ages
of the Ages! Even so!"
007:013 Then, addressing me, one of the Elders said, "Who are these
people clothed in the long white robes? And where have