1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the start of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city had been struck, on that same day the hand of the LORD came upon me and he brought me there.
2 In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side was something like the buildings of a city.
3 He brought me there, and behold, there was a man who looked like bronze, holding a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand, standing in the gate.
4 The man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears, and pay close attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here, so that I may show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see."
5 There was a wall surrounding the house on the outside, and the measuring reed in the man's hand was six cubits long, each cubit being a cubit plus a handbreadth. He measured the thickness of the wall, one reed, and its height, one reed.
6 Next he came to the gate facing east, climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep, and the other threshold, one reed deep.
7 The side rooms were one reed long and one reed wide each, with five cubits between the side rooms; and the threshold of the gate next to the vestibule of the gate, toward the inside, was one reed.
8 He measured the vestibule of the gate toward the inside: one reed.
9 He measured the vestibule of the gate: eight cubits, with its jambs two cubits; the vestibule of the gate was toward the inside.
10 There were three side rooms on each side of the east gate; all three had one measurement, and the jambs on either side had one measurement.
11 He measured the width of the gateway entrance, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
12 In front of the side rooms was a barrier one cubit deep on either side, and the side rooms were six cubits on either side.
13 He measured the gate from the roof of one side room to the roof of the other: twenty-five cubits wide, from doorway to facing doorway.
14 He reckoned the jambs at sixty cubits, and the court extended up to the jamb all around the gate.
15 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the vestibule of the gate on the inside it was fifty cubits.
16 The side rooms and their jambs had narrow windows facing inward all around the gate, and the vestibules likewise; windows ran all around facing inward, and the jambs had palm trees.
17 Then he brought me into the outer court, where I saw chambers and a pavement laid all around the court; thirty chambers faced onto the pavement.
18 The pavement ran beside the gates, matching the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
19 He measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court: a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
20 Next he measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court that faced north.
21 Its side rooms, three on either side, its jambs and its vestibule had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
22 Its windows, its vestibule and its palm trees had the same measurements as the gate facing east; seven steps went up to it, with its vestibule in front of them.
23 The inner court had a gate facing the north gate, as with the east gate; he measured from gate to gate: a hundred cubits.
24 Then he led me southward, and there was a gate on the south side. He measured its jambs and its vestibule, and they had the same measurements as the others.
25 It and its vestibule had windows all around, like the other windows; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
26 Seven steps went up to it, with its vestibule in front of them, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
27 The inner court had a gate on the south; he measured from gate to gate toward the south: a hundred cubits.
28 Then he brought me into the inner court by the south gate and measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others.
29 Its side rooms, jambs and vestibule had the same measurements as the others, and it and its vestibule had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
30 All around were vestibules twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
31 Its vestibule faced the outer court, with palm trees on its jambs, and eight steps went up to it.
32 Then he brought me into the inner court on the east side and measured the gate; it had the same measurements as the others.
33 Its side rooms, jambs and vestibule had the same measurements as the others, and it and its vestibule had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
34 Its vestibule faced the outer court, with palm trees on its jambs on either side, and eight steps went up to it.
35 Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it; it had the same measurements as the others,
36 as did its side rooms, jambs and vestibule, and it had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
37 Its jambs faced the outer court, with palm trees on its jambs on either side, and eight steps went up to it.
38 A chamber with its doorway at the jambs of the gates was where the burnt offering was washed.
39 In the vestibule of the gate stood two tables on one side and two tables on the other, for slaughtering the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.
40 On the outside wall, as one went up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables, and on the other side, at the vestibule of the gate, two tables.
41 So there were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, beside the gate: eight tables in all, for slaughtering.
42 There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit high; on these were laid the implements used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43 Hooks a handbreadth long were fixed all around inside, and the meat of the offering was to go on the tables.
44 Outside the inner gate, in the inner court, were chambers for the singers, one beside the north gate facing south, and one beside the east gate facing north.
45 He told me, "This chamber facing south is for the priests who are in charge of the house,
46 and the chamber facing north is for the priests who are in charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the ones among the sons of Levi who draw near to the LORD to serve him."
47 He measured the court: a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, a square; and the altar stood in front of the house.
48 Then he brought me to the vestibule of the house and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on either side.
49 The vestibule was twenty cubits long and eleven cubits wide, and it was reached by steps; beside the jambs stood pillars, one on either side.