God's People Will Be Preserved (Revelation 7:1-8) New Living and Good News Translations

NEW LIVING TRANSLATION

1  Then I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds so they did not blow on the earth or the sea, or even on any tree. 

2  And I saw another angel coming up from the east, carrying the seal of the living God. And he shouted to those four angels, who had been given power to harm land and sea, 

3  “Wait! Don’t harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have placed the seal of God on the foreheads of his servants.”

4  And I heard how many were marked with the seal of God—144,000 were sealed from all the tribes of Israel:

5  from Judah	12,000
from Reuben	12,000
from Gad	12,000
6  from Asher	12,000
from Naphtali	12,000
from Manasseh	12,000
7  from Simeon	12,000
from Levi	12,000
from Issachar	12,000
8  from Zebulun	12,000
from Joseph	12,000
from Benjamin	12,000

GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION

1  After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds so that no wind should blow on the earth or the sea or against any tree. 

2  And I saw another angel coming up from the east with the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels to whom God had given the power to damage the earth and the sea. 

3  The angel said, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we mark the servants of our God with a seal on their foreheads.”

4  And I was told that the number of those who were marked with God's seal on their foreheads was 144,000. They were from the twelve tribes of Israel, 

5-8  twelve thousand from each tribe: Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.