1. In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me there.
2. In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel and set me upon a very high mountain, upon which was as the frame of a city to the south.
3. And 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. And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that I show thee for to the intent that I might show them unto thee art thou brought here: declare all that thou dost see to the house of Israel.
5. And behold a wall on the outside of the house, and the measuring reed which that man had in his hand, was six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand breadth; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
6. Then he came unto the gate which looks toward the east and went up the stairs thereof and measured the post of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other post of the gate, which was one reed broad.
7. And each chamber was one reed long and one reed broad; and between the chambers were five cubits; and each post of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8. He also measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.
9. Then he measured the entrance of the portal, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the entrance of the portal within.
10. And the gate eastward had three chambers on each side, they three were of one measure; and the portals were also of one measure on each side.
11. And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the portal, thirteen cubits.
12. The space also before the chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side; and the chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
13. He measured then the gate from the roof of one chamber to the roof of another; the breadth was twenty-five cubits, door against door.
14. He also made the portals of sixty cubits, each portal of the court and of the portal all around.