1. In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, on that same day the hand of יהוה came upon me and He brought me there.
2. In visions of Elohim He brought me into the land of Yisra’ĕl and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it toward the south was as the structure of a city.
3. So He brought me there, and look, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
4. And the man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show them to you. Declare to the house of Yisra’ĕl all that you are seeing.”
5. And look: a wall all around the outside of the House, and in the man’s hand a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth. And he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod, and the height one rod.
6. Then he came to the gate facing east. And he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod wide, and the other threshold, one rod wide,
7. and the little room one rod long and one rod wide, and between the little rooms a space of five cubits. And the threshold of the gate inwards from the porch of the gate was one rod.
8. Then he measured the porch of the inside gate, one rod.
9. And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and its posts two cubits. And the porch of the gate was on the inside.
10. And the little rooms of the east gate three on one side and three on the other, all three of the same size. And posts were of the same size on this side and that side.
11. And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate thirteen cubits.
12. And the border in front of the little rooms, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side. And the gate room was six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.
13. And he measured the gate from the roof of one little room to the roof of the other, the width was twenty-five cubits, door to door.
14. And he measured the posts, sixty cubits high, even to the post of the courtyard all around the gate.