Ezekiel 40:1-21
English Standard Version
Chapter 40
1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me to the city. 2In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south. 3When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway. 4And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel."
5And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man 's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.
6Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.
7And the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed.
8Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed.
9Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.
10And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size.
11Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.
12There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side.
13Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other.
14He measured also the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.
15From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.
16And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.
17Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.
18And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.
19Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.
20As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.
21Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.
