Revelation 7:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² Then I saw another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, ³ saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads.” ⁴ And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand^[a] sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of Israel,