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¹ In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the very same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.² In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.³ And he brought me there; and, look, 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 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, to the intent that I may show them to you, you were brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

⁵ And, look, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth 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 toward the east, and went up the steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.⁷ And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.⁸ He measured also the porch of the gate,⁹ eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.¹⁰ And the lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; the three of them were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.¹¹ And 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 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of five and twenty cubits; door against door.¹⁴ He also made posts, threescore cubits; and the court [went] all round the gate [reaching] to the posts.¹⁵ And [from] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.¹⁶ And there were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts inside the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm-trees.¹⁷ Then brought he me into the outer court; and, look, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were on the pavement.¹⁸ And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.¹⁹ Then he measured the length from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.²⁰ And the gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured the length thereof and the width thereof.²¹ And the lodges thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arch thereof was after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the width five and twenty cubits.²² And the windows thereof, and the arch thereof, and the palm-trees thereof, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arch thereof was before them.²³ And there was a gate to the inner court opposite the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.²⁴ And he led me toward the south; and, look, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arch thereof according to these measures.²⁵ And there were windows in it and in the arch thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width five and twenty cubits.²⁶ And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arch thereof was before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts thereof.

²⁷ And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.²⁸ Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;²⁹ and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arch thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arch thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.³⁰ And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.³¹ And the post thereof was toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts thereof: and the ascent to it had eight steps.³² And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;³³ and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arch thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arch thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.³⁴ And the post thereof was toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.³⁵ And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;³⁶ the lodges thereof, the posts thereof, and the arch thereof: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the width five and twenty cubits.³⁷ And the post thereof was toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.³⁸ And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.

³⁹ And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.⁴⁰ And on the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.⁴¹ Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew [the sacrifices].⁴² And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.⁴³ And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened inside round about: and the flesh of the oblation [was brought] to the tables.⁴⁴ And outside the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate, and their prospects were toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.⁴⁵ And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;⁴⁶ and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.⁴⁷ And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.⁴⁸ Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the width of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.⁴⁹ The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and on ten steps they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.