Ezekiel Chapter 40
1 In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was stricken, in the same day, the hand of the Lord was on me and brought me there.
2 In the visions of God, He brought me into the land of Israel and made me rest on a very high mountain. It went up like the structure of the city on the south.
3 He brought me there and behold a man whose appearance was like the look of bronze with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed stood in the gate.
4 The man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes and hear with your ears and set your heart on all that I will show you. For you are brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
5 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around and in the man's hand was a measuring reed, six cubits long, with a cubit and a span. He measured the building's width, one reed, and the height, one reed.
6 He came to the gate that faced east, went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide, even the one threshold, one reed wide.
7 A room was one reed long and one reed wide. And between the rooms were five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.
8 He also measured the porch of the gate inside, one reed.
9 He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits. And its pillars, two cubits. Also the porch of the gate from the house.
10 The gate rooms eastward were three from here, and three from there. One measure to the three of them. And one measure was to the pillars from here and from there.
11 He measured the width of the gate opening, ten cubits. The length of the gate was thirteen cubits.
12 The border in front of the rooms was one cubit from here, and the space was one cubit from there. And the room was six cubits from here and six cubits from there.
13 He measured the gate of the room from the roof to roof, 25 cubits wide, door to door.
14 He also made the pillars, 60 cubits, even to the court pillar, from the gate all around.
15 On the face of the entrance gate to the face of the porch of the inner gate was 50 cubits;
16 and latticed windows were to the rooms and to their pillars inside the gate all around. And so for the porches. And windows were all around inside. And to each pillar were palm trees.
17 He brought me into the outer court and to chambers and a pavement made for the court all around. 30 rooms were on the pavement.
18 The pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
19 He measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court on the outside, 100 cubits eastward and northward.
20 The gate that faces the way of the north of the outer court, he measured its length and its width.
21 Its rooms were three from here and three from there. And its pillars and its porches were according to the first measure. Its length was 50 cubits, and its width, 25 cubits.
22 Their windows and porches and palm trees were according to the measure of the gate facing the east. They went up to it by seven steps and its porches were before them.
23 The gate of the inner court was across from the gate toward the north and toward the east. He measured from gate to gate, 100 cubits.
24 Then he led me south and behold a south gate. He measured its pillars and its porches according to these measures.
25 There were windows in it and in its porches all around like those windows. The length was 50 cubits and the width 25 cubits.
26 Seven steps were going up to it and its porches were before them. It had palm trees, one from here and another from there, on its pillars.
27 There was a gate in the inner court southward. He measured from gate to gate southward, 100 cubits.
28 He brought me to the inner court by the south gate and measured the south gate according to these measures.
29 Its rooms and its pillars and its porches according to these measures. There were windows in it and in its porches all around. It was 50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.
30 The porches all around were 25 cubits long and five cubits wide.
31 Its porches were toward the outer court with palm trees on its pillars. Its stairway had eight steps.
32 He brought me into the inner court eastward and measured the gate according to these measures.
33 Its rooms and pillars and porches were measured according to these measures. There were windows in it and in its porches all around. It was 50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.
34 Its porches were toward the outer court. And palm trees were on its pillars, from here, and from there. And its stairway had eight steps.
35 He brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;
36 its rooms, its pillars, and its porches, and its windows all around. The length was 50 cubits, and the width 25 cubits.
37 Its pillars were toward the outer court. And palm trees were on its pillars, from here and from there. And its stairway had eight steps.
38 The chamber and its door was by the pillars of the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
39 In the porch of the gate were two tables from here and two tables from there, for the slaughtering of the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
40 To the side outside, as one goes up to the door of the gate northward were two tables. And on the other side at the porch of the gate, two tables.
41 Four tables were from here, and four tables were from there, by the side of the gate: eight tables. They slaughter on them.
42 The four tables for burnt offering were of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They also rested on them the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43 The double hooks of one span were fastened in the house all around, and on the tables the flesh of the offering.
44 From the outside to the inner court were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. And their face was southward: one at the side of the east gate looked the way of the north.
45 He said to me, This chamber facing southward is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
46 The chamber facing northward is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. They are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near the Lord to minister to Him.
47 He measured the court, a square, 100 cubits long and 100 cubits wide. And the altar was before the house.
48 He brought me to the porch of the house and measured each pillar of the porch, five cubits from here and five cubits from there. And the gate was three cubits wide from here and three cubits from there.
49 The porch was 20 cubits long and 11 cubits wide. He brought me by the steps by which they went up to it. And columns were by the pillars, one from here and another from there.