Ezekiel 40:1-16 ▼

1 In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was captured, on this very day, the hand of YHWH was upon me, and He took me there.

2 In visions of God, He brought me to the land of Israel, and made me rest on a very high mountain; and on it was like the structure of a city on the south.

3 And He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and He had a cord of flax in his hand, and a rod for measuring, and he was standing in the gateway.

4 And the man said to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear, and set your heart to all that I am going to show you; for that I might show it to you, you were brought here. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel!”

5 And behold, a wall on the outside of the temple all around, and in the hand of the man was a rod measuring six cubits, by a cubit and a handbreadth. And he measured the width of the structure, one rod, and the height, one rod.

6 And he went to the gateway of which its face was toward the east, and he went up on its steps and measured the threshold of the gateway, one rod deep, even one threshold, one rod deep.

7 And the gate chamber was one rod long, and one rod wide; and between the gate chambers five cubits; and the threshold of the gateway by the porch of the gate inside was one rod.

8 And He measured the porch of the gate inside, one rod.

9 And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the gateposts, two cubits; and the porch of the gateway was on the inside.

10 And the chambers of the gateway toward the east were three on this side, and three on this side; a single measure unto the three, and a single measure was unto the gateposts on this side and on this side.

11 And He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

12 And there was a space before the face of the gate chambers, one cubit and one cubit on this side, and the chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on this side.

13 And he measured the gateway from the roof of the one chamber to the roof of the, and the width was twenty-five cubits, door over against door.

14 And He measured the porticos, sixty cubits high, and to the gatepost of the court was the gateway all around.

15 And from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the porch of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

16 And were beveled windows in the gate chambers, and in their side pillars on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the porticos; and were windows all around on the inside, and on each side pillar were palm trees.