^{2 Ref} and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,

^{3 Ref} `Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'

^{4 Ref} And I heard the number of those sealed, (144 thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):