7:9 After these things I looked, and here was 2 an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, 3 people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.
1 sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).
2 tn The phrase “and here was” expresses the sense of καὶ ἰδού (kai idou).
3 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated before each of the following categories, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.