1. In the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of our exile, on the tenth day of the month, exactly fourteen years after the city was struck down, on that very day, the Lord’s power was on me, and he took me there.
2. In God’s visions, he brought me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain, where there was a city structure to the south.
3. When he brought me there, I saw a man standing in the gate. He appeared to be bronze, and he had a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
4. The man spoke to me, "Human one, look and listen well, and take seriously everything I show you, because you were brought here so that these things could be revealed to you. Describe everything you see to the house of Israel."
5. Now there was an outer wall that went all the way around the temple compound. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was ten and a half feet (based on a standard eighteen inches plus three inches). When he measured the wall’s height and width it was ten and a half feet high and ten and a half feet wide.
6. He entered the gate facing east. He went up its steps, and he measured the plaza at the gate. It was ten and a half feet wide: the plaza was ten and a half feet wide.
7. The rooms were ten and a half feet long and ten and a half feet wide, with a space of seven and a half feet between them. The plaza next to the porch at the gate opposite the temple was ten and a half feet.
8. He measured the porch of the gate opposite the temple: it was ten and a half feet.