The Sealing of the 144,000

7 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel [fn]ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God. He cried out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the earth and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.

5 From the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed,

from the tribe of Reuben twelve [fn]thousand,

from the tribe of Gad twelve [fn]thousand,

6 from the tribe of Asher twelve [fn]thousand,

from the tribe of Naphtali twelve [fn]thousand,

from the tribe of Manasseh twelve [fn]thousand,

7 from the tribe of Simeon twelve [fn]thousand,

from the tribe of Levi twelve [fn]thousand,

from the tribe of Issachar twelve [fn]thousand,

8 from the tribe of Zebulun twelve [fn]thousand,

from the tribe of Joseph twelve [fn]thousand,

and from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.