And I heard the number of them, which were sealed, and there were sealed [a]an hundred and four and forty thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 7:4 That is, of the Jews a number certain in itself before God, and such as may be numbered of us: for which cause also the same is here set down as certain. But of the elect which are of the Gentiles, the number indeed is in itself certain with God, but of us not possibly to be numbered, as God, Gen. 15:5, and often elsewhere, and Isaiah figured most excellently, Isa. 49 and 60. This therefore is spoken with respect, when a certain number is put for one uncertain. Confer this with verse 6.

Then I heard the number(A) of those who were sealed: 144,000(B) from all the tribes of Israel.

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