Reference

Revelation 11:2

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
1

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

2

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

3

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

4

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

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While the "forty and two months" could be interpreted literally as a duration, the context of Revelation often employs numbers and imagery symbolically, making a purely literal interpretation less likely without considering the broader prophetic context.