Revelation 21:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.

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  • Ezek 41:1-5 : 1 And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other. 2 And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. 3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other. 4 And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. 5 Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.
  • Zech 2:1 : 1 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.
  • Rev 11:1-2 : 1 And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it. 2 But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.
  • Exod 40:3-5 : 3 And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it. 4 And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning. 5 And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House.

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  • Rev 21:16-19
    4 verses
    88%

    16 And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.

    17 And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

    18 And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.

    19 The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

  • Rev 11:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.

    2 But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

  • Rev 21:10-14
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    79%

    10 And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

    11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:

    12 She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

    13 And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors.

    14 And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

  • Zech 2:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

    2 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.

  • Rev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    79%

    21 And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.

    22 And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.

    23 And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

  • Ezek 40:5-9
    5 verses
    77%

    5 And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.

    6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

    7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

    8 And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

    9 Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

  • Ezek 40:2-3
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    77%

    2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

    3 He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.

  • 35 And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;

  • 32 And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

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    15 And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

    16 He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    17 And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    18 And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    19 And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

    20 He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

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    16 And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred.

    17 And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty.

  • 73%

    27 And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.

    28 Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;

  • 2 And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.

  • 30 And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;

  • 11 And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

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    23 And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.

    24 And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.

  • 48 Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

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    18 And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.

    19 Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,

    20 And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.

    21 And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • 13 And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

  • 25 And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):

  • 3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

  • 3 And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.

  • 2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.