Ezekiel 40:1-28

The Prophet's Vision of the Temple

40¹ In the twenty-fifth e year of our exile , at the beginning of the year , on the tenth of the month , in the fourteenth e year after the city was taken , on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there . ² In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain , and on it to the south there was a structure like a city . ³ So He brought me there ; and behold , there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze , with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand ; and he was standing in the gateway . ⁴ The man said to me, " Son of man , see with your eyes , hear with your ears , and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see ."

⁵ And behold , there was a wall on the outside of the temple all around , and in the man's hand was a measuring rod of six cubits , each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth . So he measured the thickness of the wall , one rod ; and the height , one rod . ⁶ Then he went to the gate which faced east , went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate , one rod in width ; and the other threshold was one rod in width . ⁷ The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide ; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms . And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod . ⁸ Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward , one rod . ⁹ He measured the porch of the gate , eight cubits ; and its side pillars , two cubits . And the porch of the gate was faced inward . ¹⁰ The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side ; the three of them had the same measurement . The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side . ¹¹ And he measured the width of the gateway e , ten cubits , and the length of the gate , thirteen e cubits . ¹² There was a barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side ; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side . ¹³ He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five e cubits from one door to the door opposite . ¹⁴ He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard . ¹⁵ From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits . ¹⁶ There were shuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms , and toward their side pillars within the gate all around , and likewise for the porches . And there were windows all around inside ; and on each side pillar were palm tree ornaments . ¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer court , and behold , there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around ; thirty chambers faced the pavement . ¹⁸ The pavement (that is, the lower pavement ) was by the side of the gates , corresponding to the length of the gates . ¹⁹ Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court , a hundred cubits on the east and on the north . ²⁰ As for the gate of the outer court which faced the north , he measured its length and its width . ²¹ It had three guardrooms on each side ; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate . Its length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five e cubits . ²² Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east ; and it was reached by seven steps , and its porch was in front of them. ²³ The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east ; and he measured a hundred cubits from gate to gate . ²⁴ Then he led me toward the south , and behold , there was a gate toward the south ; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements . ²⁵ The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows ; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five e cubits . ²⁶ There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars , one on each side .

²⁷ The inner court had a gate toward the south ; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south , a hundred cubits . ²⁸ Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate ; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements .