3. He 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.
4. 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 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.”
5. Behold, 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.
6. Then 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.
7. Every 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.
8. He measured also the porch of the gate towards the house, one reed.
9. Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was towards the house.
10. The lodges 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.
11. He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
12. and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
13. He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubit, door against door.
14. He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.
15. From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
16. There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.
17. Then brought he me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.
18. The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
19. Then 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.
20. He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces towards the north.