Revelation 11:9

11:9 For three and a half days those from every ¹  people, tribe, ²  nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. ³ 

Revelation 21:12

21:12 It has ⁴  a massive, high wall ⁵  with twelve gates, ⁶  with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel ⁷  are written on the gates. ⁸ 

Revelation 7:9

7:9 After these things I looked, and here was ⁹  an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, ¹⁰  people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.

[11:9]  ¹ tn The word “every” is not in the Greek text, but is implied by the following list.

[11:9]  ² tn The Greek term καί (kai) has not been translated before this and the following items in the list, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[11:9]  ³ tn Or “to be buried.”

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Grk “jasper, having.” Here a new sentence was started in the translation.

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Grk “a (city) wall great and high.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tn On this term BDAG 897 s.v. πυλών 1 states, “gate, esp. of the large, impressive gateways at the entrance of temples and palaces…of the entrances of the heavenly Jerusalem…οἱ πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν its entrances shall never be shut Rv 21:25; cp. vss. 12ab, 13abcd, 15, 21ab; 22:14.”

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “of the sons of Israel.” The translation “nation of Israel” is given in L&N 11.58.

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the gates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:9]  ⁷ tn The phrase “and here was” expresses the sense of καὶ ἰδού (kai idou).

[7:9]  ⁸ 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.