Revelation 11:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

The Two Witnesses

11 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, ‘Come and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, ² but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. ³ And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth.’