2. Then I saw another angel, who had the seal of the living God rise up from the east. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to harm the earth and the sea:
3. “Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads. ”
4. And I heard the number of those who were sealed:144,000 sealed from every tribe of the Israelites:
5. 12,000 sealed from the tribe of Judah,12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
6. 12,000 from the tribe of Asher,12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
7. 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,12,000 from the tribe of Levi,12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
8. 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,12,000 sealed from the tribe of Benjamin.