1. 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 would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

2. I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

3. saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"

4. I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of ISRAEL:

5. of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand,of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

6. of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand,of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,

7. of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand,of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

8. of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand,of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand,of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.