1. In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, fourteen years after the city had been captured, on that very day the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me back there.
2. In a divine vision he brought me to the land of Israel, where he set me down on a very high mountain. In front of me, there was something like a city built on it.
3. He brought me there, and there standing in the gateway was a man whose appearance was like bronze! He held in his hand a linen cord and a measuring rod.
4. The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen intently. Pay strict attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Then you must tell the house of Israel everything you see.”
5. There an outer wall completely surrounded the temple. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six cubits long, each cubit being a cubit plus a handbreadth; he measured the width of the structure, one rod, and its height, one rod.
6. Going to the gate facing east, he climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the outer gateway as one rod wide.
7. Each cell was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the cells; the threshold of the inner gateway adjoining the vestibule of the gate facing the temple was one rod wide.
8. He also measured the vestibule of the inner gate,
9. eight cubits, and its posts, two cubits each. The vestibule faced the inside.
10. On each side of the east gatehouse were three cells, all the same size; their posts were all the same size.
11. He measured the width of the gate’s entryway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate itself, thirteen cubits.