Revelation 7:4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand^[a] sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of Israel,

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7.4 a hundred and forty-four thousand: A symbolic number, i.e., twelve (the sacred number) squared and multiplied by 1,000 to denote a multitude. It is the church, the spiritual Israel, that is meant.

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