16. Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).
17. He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.
18. The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
19. The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
20. the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
21. And the twelve gates are twelve pearls – each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
22. Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple.
23. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.
24. The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.
25. Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).
26. They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,
27. but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.