16 Bind up the testimony; ^mseal the teaching¹ among my disciples.

11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is ^asealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

The Scroll and the Lamb

1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne ^aa scroll written within and on the back, ^bsealed with seven seals.

4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, ^b“Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and ^cdo not write it down.”

10 And he said to me, “Do not ^vseal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for ^wthe time is near.