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.
12. The borders in front of the cells on both sides were one cubit, while the cells themselves measured six cubits by six cubits from one opening to the next.