³¹ three gates: the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel.^(A)

¹² It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names that are the names^[a] of the twelve tribes of the Israelites:^{(A) 13} on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.

Judah’s Song of Victory

26 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

²⁵ Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.^(A)

²¹ And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each of the gates is a single pearl, and the street of the city is pure gold, transparent as glass.