Revelation 7:9
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Study Note
Study Note
The vision of a 'great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb' is the most explicitly universalist vision in the New Testament. The fourfold ethnic formula (nations, kindreds, people, tongues) is drawn from Genesis's Table of Nations (Genesis 10) and Daniel 3, suggesting the entire human family represented before the Lamb. Missiologists and theologians have used this verse to ground both the universal scope of the Great Commission and the insistence that the eschatological community will retain ethnic distinctiveness rather than dissolving into uniformity.
Other Translations
After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and ofalltribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;
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,
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
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