Ezekiel 40:1-42 In the twenty fifth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on that same day the hand of the LORD was on me, and He brought me there.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the twenty fifth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on that same day the hand of the LORD was on me, and He brought me there. ² and in a vision of God brought me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on which there was a building before me resembling a city. ³ And He brought me there, and behold, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed. And he stood in the gate. ⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you. For in order to show you, you are brought here. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see. ⁵ ¶ And behold a wall on the outside of the house, and the measuring reed which that man had in his hand, was six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand breadth; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. ⁶ The man went to the gateway that faced east. He went up its steps and measured the entrance to the gateway. It was ten and one half feet wide. ⁷ And every cell was one rod long, and one rod broad; and between the cells were five cubits: and the threshold of the gate near by the porch of the gate within was one rod. ⁸ He also measured the entrance hall of the gateway. ⁹ Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside. ¹⁰ And the gate eastward had three chambers on each side, they three were of one measure; and the portals were also of one measure on each side. ¹¹ And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. ¹² The edge before the chambers was one cubit broad upon both the sides, and the cambers six cubits wide of either side. ¹³ He measured the gateway from the top of one guardroom to the top of the opposite guardroom. It was forty-four feet wide from one door to the opposite door. ¹⁴ And the open space of the columned porch of the gate—sixty cubits, and to the vestibules of the gate round about. ¹⁵ And upon the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the gate, fifty cubits. ¹⁶ The guardrooms and recessed walls inside the gateway had small windows all around. The entrance hall also had windows all around on the inside. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls. ¹⁷ Then he brought 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 And the pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates was the lower pavement. ¹⁹ The man measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner courtyard. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet from the east and to the north. ²⁰ He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north. ²¹ And its alcoves were three on each side, and its pilasters and its porticos had the same measurement as the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and its width was twenty-five cubits. ²² Its windows, recessed walls, and palm tree pictures were the same size as those in the east gateway. Seven steps went up to it and led to its entrance hall. ²³ There was a gate to the inner court over against the other gate, both on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits. ²⁴ The man led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway that faced south. He measured its recessed walls and its entrance hall. They were the same size as those of the other gateways. ²⁵ And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ²⁶ Seven steps went up to it and led to its entrance hall. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, one picture on each side. ²⁷ And there was a gate in the inner court on the south side: and he measured from gate to gate on the south side one hundred cubits. ²⁸ The man brought me to the inner courtyard through the south gateway. He measured the south gateway. It was the same size as the others. ²⁹ with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁰ The porches round about were twenty five cubits long, and five cubits broad: ³¹ and its arches [are] unto the outer court, and palm-trees [are] unto its posts, and eight steps [are] its ascent." ³² And he brought me into the inner court on the east side; and he measured the gate after these measures; ³³ with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁴ His porches reached unto the uttermost court: his pillars also had date trees on either side, and eight steps to go up upon. ³⁵ Then the man brought me to the north gateway. He measured it. It was the same size as the others. ³⁶ its rooms, its posts, and its porches. And windows were to it all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty five cubits wide. ³⁷ And its ailammons were on the outer court, and there were palm trees to the aileu, on each side and eight steps up to it. ³⁸ A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there. ³⁹ And in the portico of the gate were two tables on each side to slaughter the burnt offering on them and the sin offering and the guilt offering. ⁴⁰ And at the side without the porch, as one went up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables; ⁴¹ So there were four tables on each side of the gateway, eight tables in all, on which they slaughtered animals. ⁴² And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt-offerings, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon they laid the instruments wherewith they slaughtered the burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.