Ezekiel 40

¹ In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, fourteen years after the city had been struck down, on that very day the hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me there.

² In visions from God he brought me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain. On it was something like the structure of a city, to the south.

³ He brought me there, and there was a man whose appearance was like bronze. In his hand he had a linen cord and a measuring rod, and he was standing at the gateway.

⁴ The man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears, and set your heart on everything I am going to show you, because you were brought here so that I could show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

⁵ There was a wall around the outside of the temple complex. The man had a measuring rod in his hand, six cubits long, each cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the wall’s thickness: one rod; and its height: one rod.

⁶ He went to the gateway facing east, climbed its steps, and measured the threshold of the gateway: one rod wide. The other threshold was also one rod wide.

⁷ Each guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide, and the space between the guardrooms was five cubits. The threshold of the gateway beside the inner side of its portico was one rod.

⁸ He measured the portico of the gateway on its inner side: one rod.

⁹ He measured the portico of the gateway: eight cubits; and its pillars: two cubits. The portico of the gateway was on the inner side.

¹⁰ The guardrooms of the east-facing gateway were three on one side and three on the other. All six had the same measurements, and the pillars on both sides had the same measurements.

¹¹ He measured the gateway opening: ten cubits wide; the gateway was thirteen cubits long.

¹² There was a barrier in front of the guardrooms, one cubit on each side, and each guardroom was six cubits on one side and six cubits on the other.

¹³ He measured the gateway from the roof of one guardroom to the roof of the one opposite: twenty-five cubits wide, with one entrance directly opposite the other.

¹⁴ He made the pillars sixty cubits high. The gateway extended to the pillar of the court all around.

¹⁵ From the front of the outer gateway entrance to the front of the inner gateway portico was fifty cubits.

¹⁶ There were recessed windows in the guardrooms and their pillars, facing inward throughout the gateway, and likewise in the porticos. The windows faced inward all around, and palm trees were carved on each pillar.

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer court. There were rooms there and a stone pavement laid all around the court; thirty rooms faced the pavement.

¹⁸ The pavement ran alongside the gateways, matching their length. This was the lower pavement.

¹⁹ He measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the front of the inner court on the outside: one hundred cubits, on the east and on the north.

²⁰ He measured the length and width of the gateway facing north, which led into the outer court.

²¹ It had three guardrooms on one side and three on the other. Its pillars and porticos had the same measurements as those of the first gateway: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

²² Its windows, porticos, and palm trees had the same measurements as those of the gateway facing east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porticos were in front of them.

²³ There was a gateway to the inner court opposite the north gateway and the east gateway. He measured from gateway to gateway: one hundred cubits.

²⁴ Then he led me toward the south, and there was a gateway facing south. He measured its pillars and porticos; they had the same measurements.

²⁵ The gateway and its porticos had windows all around, like the other windows: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

²⁶ Seven steps led up to it, and its porticos were in front of them. It had palm trees on its pillars, one on each side.

²⁷ There was a gateway to the inner court facing south. He measured from gateway to gateway, toward the south: one hundred cubits.

²⁸ Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gateway and measured it. It had the same measurements.

²⁹ Its guardrooms, pillars, and porticos had the same measurements. It and its porticos had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

³⁰ There were porticos all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

³¹ Its porticos faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its pillars. Eight steps led up to it.

³² Then he brought me into the inner court on the east side and measured the gateway. It had the same measurements.

³³ Its guardrooms, pillars, and porticos had the same measurements. It and its porticos had windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

³⁴ Its porticos faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its pillars, on both sides. Eight steps led up to it.

³⁵ Then he brought me to the north gateway and measured it. It had the same measurements.

³⁶ It had guardrooms, pillars, and porticos, and windows all around: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

³⁷ Its pillars faced the outer court, and palm trees were on them, on both sides. Eight steps led up to it.

³⁸ There was a room with its entrance beside the gateway pillars; there the burnt offering was washed.

³⁹ In the portico of the gateway were two tables on one side and two tables on the other, on which the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering were slaughtered.

⁴⁰ Outside, on the side as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, were two tables; and on the other side of the gateway portico were two tables.

⁴¹ There were four tables on one side of the gateway and four on the other, eight tables in all, on which the animals were slaughtered.

⁴² There were four tables for the burnt offering, made of dressed stone, each one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one cubit high. The tools used to slaughter the burnt offerings and sacrifices were placed on them.

⁴³ Hooks, one handbreadth long, were fixed all around inside. The meat of the offering was placed on the tables.

⁴⁴ Outside the inner gateway, in the inner court, were rooms for the singers. One was beside the north gateway, facing south; another was beside the east gateway, facing north.

⁴⁵ He said to me, “This room, which faces south, is for the priests who keep watch over the temple service.

⁴⁶ The room that faces north is for the priests who keep watch over the altar service. They are the sons of Zadok, the ones among the sons of Levi who approach the LORD to serve him.”

⁴⁷ He measured the court: one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square. The altar stood in front of the temple.

⁴⁸ Then he brought me to the temple portico and measured its pillars: five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other. The gateway was three cubits wide on one side and three cubits on the other.

⁴⁹ The portico was twenty cubits long and eleven cubits wide. Steps led up to it, and there were columns beside the pillars, one on each side.

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