Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.