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flowing down the middle of the city’s[a] main street.[b] On each side[c] of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds[d] of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year.[e] Its leaves are for the healing of the nations. And there will no longer be any curse,[f] and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city.[g] His[h] servants[i] will worship[j] him, and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 22:2 tn Grk “its”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Revelation 22:2 tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).
  3. Revelation 22:2 tn Grk “From here and from there.”
  4. Revelation 22:2 tn Or “twelve crops” (one for each month of the year).
  5. Revelation 22:2 tn The words “of the year” are implied.
  6. Revelation 22:3 tn Or “be anything accursed” (L&N 33.474).
  7. Revelation 22:3 tn Grk “in it”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  8. Revelation 22:3 tn Grk “city, and his.” Although this is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, a new sentence was started here in the translation because of the introduction of the Lamb’s followers.
  9. Revelation 22:3 tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.
  10. Revelation 22:3 tn Or “will serve.”

down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life,(A) bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.(B) No longer will there be any curse.(C) The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.(D) They will see his face,(E) and his name will be on their foreheads.(F)

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