Revelation 21:12 New English Translation
12 It has[a] a massive, high wall[b] with twelve gates,[c] with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel[d] are written on the gates.[e]
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- Revelation 21:12 tn Grk “jasper, having.” Here a new sentence was started in the translation.
- Revelation 21:12 tn Grk “a (city) wall great and high.”
- Revelation 21:12 tn On this term BDAG 897 s.v. πυλών 1 states, “gate, esp. of the large, impressive gateways at the entrance of temples and palaces…of the entrances of the heavenly Jerusalem…οἱ πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν its entrances shall never be shut Rv 21:25; cp. vss. 12ab, 13abcd, 15, 21ab; 22:14.”
- Revelation 21:12 tn Grk “of the sons of Israel.” The translation “nation of Israel” is given in L&N 11.58.
- Revelation 21:12 tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the gates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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