Revelation 21:15
Good News Translation
The angel who spoke to me had a gold measuring stick to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

New Revised Standard Version
The angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.

Contemporary English Version
The angel who spoke to me had a gold measuring stick to measure the city and its gates and its walls.

New American Bible
The one who spoke to me held a gold measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall.

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Revelation 11:1,2 And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein. . . .

Exodus 40:3-5 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it: . . .

Ezekiel 41:1 And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the fronts six cubits broad on this side, and six cubits on that side, the breadth of the tabernacle.

*etc:

Zechariah 2:1 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.

Context
The New Jerusalem
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, 15And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall. 16And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 40:3
And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.

Zechariah 2:2
And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.

Revelation 11:1
And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein.

Revelation 21:12
And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

Revelation 21:16
And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is as great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed for twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the breadth thereof are equal.

Revelation 21:21
And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were, transparent glass.

Revelation 21:25
And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.

Revelation 21:14
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