[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 struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me,
and he brought me there. [2] In the visions of God brought he 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] He brought me there; and,
behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass,
with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the
gate. [4] The man said to me, Son of man, see 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, are you brought here: declare all that
you see to the house of Israel. [5] Behold, 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 came he to the gate
which looks toward the east, and went up the steps of it: and he measured
the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one
reed broad. [7] 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 toward the house, one reed. [9] Then measured he the
porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits; and the
porch of the gate was toward the house. [10] The lodges of the gate
eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were
of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that
side. [11] He measured the breadth 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] He
measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other,
a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door. [14] He made also
posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, round about the
gate. [15] [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the
forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. [16] There were
closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within 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, behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court
round about: thirty chambers were on the pavement. [18] 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 breadth from the forefront of the
lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits,
[both] on the east and on the north. [20] The gate of the outer court whose
prospect is toward the north, he measured the length of it and the breadth
of it. [21] The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that
side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of
the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth
twenty-five cubits. [22] The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the
palm-trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of
it were before them. [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] He led me toward the south; and,
behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the
arches of it according to these measures. [25] There were windows in it and
in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty
cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. [26] There were seven steps to
go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm-trees,
one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it. [27] 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 of it, and the posts of it, and the
arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and
in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five
cubits broad. [30] There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long,
and five cubits broad. [31] The arches of it were toward the outer court;
and palm-trees were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight
steps. [32] He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
measured the gate according to these measures; [33] and the lodges of it,
and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and
there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was
fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad. [34] The arches of it were
toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts of it, on this
side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. [35] He
brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these
measures; [36] the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and
there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth twenty-five cubits. [37] The posts of it were toward the outer
court; and palm-trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that
side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. [38] A chamber with the door of
it was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.
[39] In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables
on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin-offering and
the trespass-offering. [40] 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 killed [the sacrifices]. [42] There were
four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn 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 killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
[43] The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and
on the tables was the flesh of the offering. [44] Outside of the inner gate
were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of
the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of
the east gate having the prospect toward the north. [45] 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] He measured the court, one 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 breadth 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 breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went
up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and
another on that side.