¹In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity , in the beginning of the year , in the tenth day of the month , in the fourteenth year after the city was struck , in the same day , the LORD ’s hand was on me , and he brought me there .

²In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel , and set me down on a very high mountain , on which was something like the frame of a city to the south .

³He brought me there ; and , behold , there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze , with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed ; and he stood in the gate .

⁴The man said to me , “Son of man , see with your eyes , and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you ; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you . Declare all that you see to the house of Israel .”

⁵Behold , there was a wall on the outside of the house all around , and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long , of a cubit and a hand width each . So he measured the thickness of the building , one reed ; and the height , one reed .[#40:5 A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres. A handbreadth is about 4.3 inches or 11 centimetres, so the long cubit described here would be about 22.3 inches or 57 centimetres long. Thus, a 6 long cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards 26.6 inches or about 3.42 metres long.]

⁶Then he came to the gate which looks towards the east , and went up its steps . He measured the threshold of the gate , one reed wide ; and the other threshold , one reed wide .

⁷Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide . Between the lodges was five cubits . The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate towards the house was one reed .

⁸He measured also the porch of the gate towards the house , one reed .

⁹Then he measured the porch of the gate , eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was towards the house .

¹⁰The side rooms of the gate eastward were three on this side , and three on that side . The three of them were of one measure . The posts had one measure on this side and on that side .

¹¹He measured the width of the opening of the gate , ten cubits; and the length of the gate , thirteen cubits;

¹²and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side , and a border , one cubit on that side ; and the side rooms, six cubits on this side , and six cubits on that side .

¹³He measured the gate from the roof of the one side room to the roof of the other , a width of twenty-five cubits , door against door .

¹⁴He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate .

¹⁵From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

¹⁶There were closed windows to the side rooms , and to their posts within the gate all around , and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward . Palm trees were on each post.

¹⁷Then he brought me into the outer court . Behold , there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around . Thirty rooms were on the pavement .

¹⁸The pavement was by the side of the gates , corresponding to the length of the gates , even the lower pavement .

¹⁹Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside , one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north .

²⁰He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces towards the north .

²¹The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side . Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate : its length was fifty cubits , and the width twenty-five cubits .

²²Its windows , its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces towards the east . They went up to it by seven steps . Its arches were before them .

²³There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate , on the north and on the east . He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate .

²⁴He led me towards the south ; and behold , there was a gate towards the south . He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements .

²⁵There were windows in it and in its arches all around , like the other windows : the length was fifty cubits , and the width twenty-five cubits .

²⁶There were seven steps to go up to it , and its arches were before them . It had palm trees , one on this side , and another on that side , on its posts.

²⁷There was a gate to the inner court towards the south . He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate towards the south .

²⁸Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate . He measured the south gate according to these measurements ;

²⁹with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements . There were windows in it and in its arches all around . It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide .

³⁰There were arches all around , twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide .

³¹Its arches were towards the outer court . Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps .

³²He brought me into the inner court towards the east . He measured the gate according to these measurements ;

³³with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements . There were windows in it and in its arches all around . It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide .

³⁴Its arches were towards the outer court . Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side . The ascent to it had eight steps .

³⁵He brought me to the north gate , and he measured it according to these measurements —

³⁶its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around . The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits .

³⁷Its posts were towards the outer court . Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side . The ascent to it had eight steps .

³⁸A room with its door was by the posts at the gates . They washed the burnt offering there .

³⁹In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side , on which to kill the burnt offering , the sin offering , and the trespass offering .

⁴⁰On the one side outside , as one goes up to the entry of the gate towards the north , were two tables ; and on the other side , which belonged to the porch of the gate , were two tables .

⁴¹Four tables were on this side , and four tables on that side , by the side of the gate : eight tables , on which they killed the sacrifices.

⁴²There were four cut stone tables for the burnt offering , a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide , and one cubit high . They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them .

⁴³The hooks , a hand width long , were fastened within all around . The meat of the offering was on the tables .

⁴⁴Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court , which was at the side of the north gate . They faced towards the south . One at the side of the east gate faced towards the north .

⁴⁵He said to me , “This room , which faces towards the south , is for the priests who perform the duty of the house .

⁴⁶The room which faces towards the north is for the priests who perform the duty of the altar . These are the sons of Zadok , who from amongst the sons of Levi come near to the LORD to minister to him .”

⁴⁷He measured the court , one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide , square . The altar was before the house .

⁴⁸Then he brought me to the porch of the house , and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side , and five cubits on that side . The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side .

⁴⁹The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits, even by the steps by which they went up to it . There were pillars by the posts , one on this side , and another on that side .