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Then there was given me a measuringrodlike a staff; and someone said, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.
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"Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will treadunderfoot the holycity for forty-two*months.
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Thesehave the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they havepowerover the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with everyplague, as often as they desire.
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Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their deadbodies for three and a halfdays, and will not permit their deadbodies to be laid in a tomb.
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And those who dwell on the earth will rejoiceover them and celebrate; and they will sendgifts to oneanother, becausethesetwoprophetstormentedthose who dwell on the earth.
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But after the three and a halfdays, the breath of life from Godcame into them, and they stood on their feet; and greatfearfell upon those who were watching them.
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And in that hour there was a greatearthquake, and a tenth of the cityfell; seventhousandpeople* were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gaveglory to the God of heaven.