⁷ Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.^(A)

⁶ His body was like topaz,^(A) his face like lightning,^(B) his eyes like flaming torches,^(C) his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze,^(D) and his voice^(E) like the sound of a multitude.

¹⁵ His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace,^(A) and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.^(B)

³ As the man went eastward with a measuring line^(A) in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits^[a] and then led me through water that was ankle-deep.

A Man With a Measuring Line

2 ^[a]Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² I asked, “Where are you going?”

He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”^(A)

The Two Witnesses

11 I was given a reed like a measuring rod^(A) and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers.

¹⁵ The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod^(A) of gold to measure the city, its gates^(B) and its walls.