and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes, who are they, and whence came they?'

And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, [are] to our God to the ages of the ages! Amen!'

 After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands, and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation [is] to Him who is sitting upon the throne to our God, and to the Lamb!'

of the tribe of Judah 12 thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Reuben 12 thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Gad 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Asher 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Naphtali 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Manasseh 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Simeon 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Levi 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Issachar 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Zebulun 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Joseph 12 thousand were sealed;

of the tribe of Benjamin 12 thousand were sealed.

And I heard the number of those sealed, (144 thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):

and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,`Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'

And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree;

and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,' because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?

and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains,

and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree doth cast her winter figs, by a great wind being shaken and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island out of their places they were moved;

 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,

and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed even as they.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held, and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him -- his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, `Come and behold!'

and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.'

And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, `Come and behold!' and I saw, and lo, a black horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a balance in his hand,

and there went forth another horse, red, and to him who is sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was given to him a great sword.