3. The Lord took me closer to the buildings. I saw a man who looked as if he were made of bronze. He was standing in the gateway. He had a cord made of linen and a stick in his hand, both for measuring.
4. The man said to me, “Human being, look with your eyes and hear with your ears. And pay attention to all that I will show you. That’s why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel all that you see.”
5. I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple. The measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10½ feet long. So the man measured the wall. It was 10½ feet thick and 10½ feet high.
6. Then the man went to the east gate. He went up its steps and measured the opening of the gate. It was more than 10½ feet wide.
7. There were rooms for the guards. They were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide. The walls that came out between the guards’ rooms were about 9 feet thick. And there was a gate next to the porch that faced the Temple. The opening of this gate was 10½ feet wide.
8. Then the man measured the porch of the gate.
9. It was about 14 feet deep. And its doors were 3½ feet thick. The porch of the gate faced the Temple.
10. There were three little rooms on each side of the last gate. These three rooms measured the same on each side. The walls between each room were the same thickness.
11. The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway. It was 17½ feet wide. The length of the gate was about 23 feet.
12. And there was a low wall about 21 inches high in front of each room. The rooms were 10½ feet on each side.
13. The man measured the gateway from the roof of one room to the roof of the opposite room. It was about 44 feet from one door to the opposite door.
14. The man also measured the porch. It was about 35 feet wide. The courtyard was around the porch.
15. From the front of the outer side of the gate to the front of the porch of the inner side of the gate was 87½ feet.