The New Jerusalem gates may bear some relation to the gates mentioned in Enoch, Chapters 33–35, where the prophet, Enoch reports that from each of the four "heavenly gates – opening in heaven – three (new gates) were seen distinctly separating (off, as if) the extremities of the whole earth" pulling apart each of the four gates into three new ones. Thus, the four gates were each replaced by three new ones, totaling twelve 3 x 4 = 12 gates in all. 3.Laurence translation, Book of Enoch.