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"Don't hurt the earth! Don't hurt the sea! Don't so much as hurt a tree until I've sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads!"
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I heard the count of those who were sealed: 144,000! They were sealed out of every Tribe of Israel:
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12,000 sealed from Judah, 12,000 from Reuben, 12,000 from Gad,
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12,000 from Asher, 12,000 from Naphtali, 12,000 from Manasseh,
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12,000 from Simeon, 12,000 from Levi, 12,000 from Issachar,
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