<p class="poetry">From the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand,p>

<p class="poetry">from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand,p>

<p class="poetry">from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand,p>

<p class="poetry">from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand,p> <p class="poetry">from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed.p>

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.<n id="1" />

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to<n id="1" /> a different tribe, and no one from that tribe<n id="2" /> has ever officiated at the altar.

Now<n id="1" /> I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal,<n id="2" /> one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from all<n id="3" /> the tribes of the people of Israel:<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old,<n id="1" /> having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Then<n id="1" /> one of the elders said<n id="2" /> to me, &#8220;Stop weeping!<n id="3" /> Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered;<n id="4" /> thus he can open<n id="5" /> the scroll and its seven seals.&#8221;p>

They were singing a new song:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;You are worthy to take the scrollp> <p class="poetry">and to open its sealsp> <p class="poetry">because you were killed,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and at the cost of your own blood<n id="3" /> you have purchased<n id="4" /> for Godp> <p class="poetry">persons<n id="5" /> from every tribe, language,<n id="6" /> people, and nation.p>