¹In the  ²twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the  ³beginning of the year, on the  ³tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that same day the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and He brought me there.

In the visions of God He brought me into the  ¹land of Israel and set me down upon a very  ¹high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.

And He brought me there, and there was a  ¹man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring  ²reed in His hand, standing in the gate.

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 show you, because for this purpose you have been brought here, that it may be shown to you. Tell all that you see to the house of Israel.

Now there was a  ¹wall all around the outside of the house, and in the man's hand there was a measuring reed six cubits long, each cubit being a  ²cubit and a handbreadth. So He measured the thickness of the structure, one reed; and the height, one reed.

Then He came to the  ¹gate which faces toward the east and went up its steps, and He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep; and each threshold was one reed deep.

And every  ¹guardroom was one reed long and one reed wide, and the space between the guardrooms was five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

He measured also the  ¹porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Then He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

And there were three guardrooms on one side and three on the other side of the gate, which was facing east; and the three of them had the same measurement, and the posts had the same measurement on both sides.

And He measured the width of the entrance of the gate,  ¹ten cubits; and the total length of the gate was thirteen cubits.

And there was a border before the guardrooms, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the guardrooms were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.

And He measured the total gate width from the roof edge of one guardroom to the roof edge of the other, twenty-five cubits. The entrances of the guardrooms were opposite each other.

He also made a measurement of the posts, sixty cubits in all; and the gate surrounded a court which reached to the posts.

And the distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

And the guardrooms and their posts had  ¹latticed windows within and all around the gate. The porches also had windows within and all around, and  ²palm trees were on each post.

Then He brought me into the outer court, and there were  ¹chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

And the pavement flanked the gates, its width equal to the length of the gates; that is, the lower pavement.

Then He measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the front of the outside of the inner court gate, a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.

Then He measured the gate of the outer court which faced toward the north, its length and its width.

And it had three guardrooms on this side and three on that side. And its posts and its porch were of the same measurement as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

And its windows and its porch and its palm trees were of the same measurement as the gate which faced toward the east, and seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.

And there was a gate to the inner court opposite the outer gate, both on the north and on the east. And He measured the distance from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

And He led me toward the south, and there was a gate toward the south, and He measured its posts and its porch according to those same measurements.

And  ¹the gate and its porch had windows all around just like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

And there were seven steps going up to it, and its porch was in front of them; and it had palm trees upon its posts, one on each side.

And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south, and He measured the distance from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

Then He brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and He measured the south gate according to those  ¹same measurements,

And its guardrooms and its posts and its porches according to those same measurements; and it had windows in and around it and its porches; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

And there were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

And its porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts, and its steps had  ¹eight steps.

And He brought me into the inner court toward the east, and He measured the gate according to those same measurements,

And its guardrooms and its posts and its porches according to those same measurements; and it had windows in and around it and its porches; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

And its porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts on each side, and its steps had eight steps.

And He brought me to the north gate, and He measured it according to those same measurements,

Its guardrooms, its posts, and its porches; and it had windows in and around it; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.

And its  ¹porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts, on each side, and its steps had eight steps.

And a  ¹chamber with its entrance was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

And in the porch of the gate were two  ¹tables on this side and two tables on that side on which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.

And on one side outside, as one goes up to the entrance 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.

Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side beside the gate; eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices.

And there were four tables for the burnt offering, made of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long and a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice;

And double hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened on the inside all around. And upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

And outside the inner gate in the inner court were  ¹two chambers, one at the side of the north gate facing toward the south; one at the side of the  ²south gate facing toward the north.

And He said to me, This chamber that faces toward the south is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;

And the chamber that faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who come near to Jehovah to minister to Him from among the sons of Levi.

And He measured the court, a square, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide; and the  ¹altar was  ²in front of the house.

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  ¹the width of the gate was fourteen cubits, plus the side indents in the gate, three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.

The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width  ¹twelve cubits, and  ²ten steps led up to it; and there were  ³pillars by the posts, one on this side and another on that side.

And He brought me to the temple and measured the posts; six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side was the width of the  ¹post.

And the width of the entrance was  ¹ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side. And He measured the length of the  ²outer temple, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

Then He went into the inner temple and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width on either side of the entrance, seven cubits.

And He measured the length of the inner temple, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the outer temple; and He said to me, This is the Holy of Holies.

Then He measured the wall of the house,  ¹six cubits thick; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

And the  ¹side chambers were in  ²three stories, one over another, with thirty units in each story; and they extended to the wall, which the house had for the side chambers all around to be supports, so that there would not be supports inserted into the wall of the house.

And the side chambers that went around the house became  ¹wider as they went up by stories. Because the surrounding of the house increased upward around the house, therefore the house had width upward; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest through the middle story.

I also saw that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six long cubits.

The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and  ¹space that was left alongside the side chambers belonged to the house.

And between the  ¹chambers and the house was a width of twenty cubits all around the house on every side.

And the entrances of the side chambers were toward the space that was left, one entrance toward the north and another entrance toward the south; and the width of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

And the  ¹building that was in front of the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

So He measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place at the back and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;

And the width of the front of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.

And He measured the length of the building before the separate place, which was behind it, and its galleries on one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits. And the outer temple, the inner temple, the porches of the court,

The thresholds, the  ¹latticed windows, and the galleries of the surrounding side chambers with their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with  ²wood all around, even from the ground to the windows (now the windows were latticed),

To the top of the entrance, both in the inner house and outside. And on all the walls all around inside and outside, by measurement,

Were both carved  ¹cherubim and palm trees. And a palm tree was between two cherubim, and every cherub had two faces.

So there was the face of a  ¹man toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other side. So it was carved in and around the whole house.

From the ground to the top of the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, even on the wall of the temple.

The temple doorposts were squared. And at the front of the sanctuary was something in appearance like the appearance of

A wooden  ¹altar,  ²three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, its length, and its walls were made of wood. And He said to me, This is the table that is before Jehovah.

Now the temple and the sanctuary had  ¹double doors.

And the double doors had two swinging leaves, two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

And carved on these, on the doors of the temple, were  ¹cherubim and  ¹palm trees, just like those carved on the walls. And there was a threshold of wood upon the front of the porch outside.

And there were latticed  ¹windows and  ¹palm trees on either side, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds.

Then He brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north, and He brought me into the  ¹chamber that was adjacent to the separate place and which was adjacent to the building toward the north.

The length of the side of the northern entrance was a hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits.

Adjacent to the twenty-cubit space of the inner court and adjacent to the pavement of the outer court was gallery facing gallery on the  ¹third story.

And before the chambers on the inside was a walkway of ten cubits' width, a way of one hundred cubits; and their entrances were toward the north.

Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more space away from these than from the lower and the middle stories in the building.

For they were arranged in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper story was set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories.

There was also an outside wall beside the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.

For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits.

And at the foot of these chambers was an entrance on the east side to enter them from the outer court;

By the breadth of the wall of the court to the  ¹south, beside the separate place and beside the building, there were chambers,

With a way before them. Their appearance was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north; just as their length, so also was their width; and all their exits were according to both their arrangements and their entrances.

So the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south were entered through an entrance toward the east at the head of the corresponding way, directly beside the wall.

Then He said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are beside the separate place are holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Jehovah shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy.

When the priests enter, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they have ministered, because they are holy. And they shall put on other garments and approach the area designated for the people.

Now when He had finished measuring the inner house, He brought me out through the gate which faces toward the east and measured it all around.

He measured on the east  ¹side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

He measured it on four sides. It had a wall all around, the length five hundred reeds and the width five hundred reeds, to make a separation between what was holy and what was common.