1In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, at the first of the year, in the tenth of the month in the fourteenth year after the city was defeated, on this day the hand of LORD JEHOVAH was upon me 2And he brought me there in a vision of God, and he brought me to the land of Israel, and he set me on a mountain that was very high, and there was upon it, on its south side, like the edifice of a city 3And he brought me there, and I saw a man, and his appearance was like the appearance of brass, and a cord of linen was in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he was standing in the gate 4And that man said to me: ‘Son of man, see with your eyes and hear with your ears and put in your heart everything that I show you, because it is to show you I have come here, and everything that you see, show to the children of Israel’

5And I saw a wall that encircled that house and a measuring reed in the hand of that man, and it was six cubits and a handbreadth, and he measured the width of the building, one reed, and its height, one reed 6And he came to the gate that looks to the East and he went up on its steps and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed to its width, and the other threshold, one reed for its width 7And the porch, one reed for its length and one reed for its width, and five cubits between the door posts, and the threshold of the door between the door posts of the gate, one reed 8(This redundant verse about the porch’s measurements according to the Hebrew is “He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.” see v.7, and is not found in the Peshitta Bible.) 9And he measured the door posts of the gate, eight cubits, and the threshold of the gate from within, two cubits 10And the inside of the eastern door, three from here and three from there, and one measure to their three, and one measure for the threshold that was from here and from there 11And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits 12And the border that was before the door post, a cubit from here and on that side, and the inside, six cubits from here and six cubits from there 13And he measured the gate from its roof to its roof, the width twenty and five cubits, and a gate next to a gate 14And he made before the face of the gate, sixty cubits, and before the front of the other outside gate, sixty cubits 15And before the inner gate, fifty cubits 16And windows that are spread out from within, and narrow ones from outside on planks, and upon the door posts of the gate, and windows that were surrounding them from within

17And he brought me to the outer courtyard, and I saw thirty steps in a spiral, stepping one above another 18And the steps were on the side of the gate that was against the length of the stairs 19And he measured its width from before the door of the courtyard, a hundred cubits to the East and to the North

20And the gate that is before it from the north of the courtyard, he measured its length and its width 21And its measurement, three from here and three from there, like the measurement of the first door, fifty cubits in its length, and its width, twenty cubits and five 22And its windows and its lintels were like the measure of the gate that faces to the East, and in seven steps going up to it; and a vestibule is before them 23And the gates of the inner courtyard that were opposite the gate of the northeast, he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits

24And he carried me to the road of the south, and I saw the gate of the south, and he measured its gate posts and its pillars according to these measurements 25And it has windows and its gate posts circling like these windows, and fifty cubits was its length and twenty and five its width 26And with seven steps going up to it, and a vestibule was before it, and palm trees were with it, one from here and one from there, by its gate posts 27And the gates of the inner court which is in the way of the south, he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits

28And he brought me to the inner court in the gate of the south, and he measured the southern gate according to these dimensions 29And the measurements of its inside and its porches and its vestibules are like these, and it has windows and porches in a circle, fifty cubits its length and twenty and five its width 30And its porches circling it, their length was twenty and five cubits and their width five cubits 31And the porches of the outer courtyard had palm trees by them, and their eight steps

32And he brought me to the inner courtyard in the way of the East, and he measured the gate like these measurements 33And the inside and its porches and its vestibules and windows are in it, and its porches in a circle; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty and five 34And the vestibules of the outer courtyard, and the palm trees were in its porches, from here and there, and it had eight steps

35And he brought me to the north gate, and he measured according to these measurements 36And the inside and its porches and its posts and the windows went around it; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty and five 37And the porches of the outer courtyard, and palm trees were in its porches, here and there, and it had eight steps

38And there was a chamber door in the porches of the gate, and there they lay burning peace offerings 39And in the porches of the gate were two tables here and two tables there, to kill upon them burning peace offerings, and offerings, and the purification of sin 40And in the side of the north gate, outside of the burning peace offerings, were two tables, and in the other side of the porches, two tables 41Four tables here and four tables there, in the porches of the gate of the land, and they are the eight tables upon which they slaughter 42And four tables of cut stone for a burnt peace offering, its length a cubit and a half, and its width a cubit and a half, and lying upon them are the instruments which those slaughtering burning peace offerings and sacrifices have by them 43And their edges were a handbreadth going around, and they were laying upon the table the flesh of offerings

44And outside of the inner gate were arched chambers of Princes in the inner court, in the side of the north gate, and their faces to the south, one from the side of the eastern gate which was against the north wind 45And he said to me: “This chamber that faces to the south is for the Priests who keep guard of the house 46And the chamber that faces the north is for the Priests, the sons of Tsadoq, who keep guard of the altar, who come near from the sons of Levi, to do the service of LORD JEHOVAH

47And he measured the courtyard, its length a hundred cubits, and its width a hundred cubits, foursided, and the altar that was before the house

48And he brought me to the porch of the house, and he measured a post five cubits from here and five cubits from there, and the width of the gate was three cubits from here and three cubits from there 49And the length of the porch, twenty cubits, and its width, eleven cubits, and by steps they were going up to it, and the pillars stood by the door posts, one here and one there