Revelation 7:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

² I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage earth and sea, ³ saying, ‘Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants^[a] of our God with a seal on their foreheads.’

⁴ And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the people of Israel: