2. In the visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel and put me down on a very high mountain. On the south of the mountain there were some buildings that looked like a city.
3. He took me closer to the buildings, and I saw a man who looked as if he were made of bronze, standing in the gateway. He had a cord made of linen and a stick in his hand, both for measuring.
4. The man said to me, “Human, look with your eyes and hear with your ears. Pay attention to all that I will show you, because that’s why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel all that you see.”
5. I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple area. The measuring stick in the man’s hand was ten and one-half feet long. So the man measured the wall, which was ten and one-half feet thick and ten and one-half feet high.
6. Then the man went to the east gateway. He went up its steps and measured the opening of the gateway. It was ten and one-half feet deep.
7. The rooms for the guards were ten and one-half feet long and ten and one-half feet wide. The walls that came out between the guards’ rooms were about nine feet thick. The opening of the gateway next to the porch that faced the Temple was ten and one-half feet deep.
8. Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.
9. It was about fourteen feet deep, and its side walls were three and one-half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the Temple.
10. On each side of the east gateway were three rooms, which measured the same on each side. The walls between each room were the same thickness.
11. The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide. The width of the gate was about twenty-three feet.
12. And there was a low wall about twenty-one inches high in front of each room. The rooms were ten and one-half feet on each side.
13. The man measured the gateway from the roof of one room to the roof of the opposite room. It was about forty-four feet from one door to the opposite door.
14. The man also measured the porch, which was about thirty-five feet wide. The courtyard was around the porch.
15. From the front of the outer side of the gateway to the front of the porch of the inner side of the gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet.