2. By means of divine visions he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.
3. When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.
4. The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”
5. I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.
6. Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.
7. The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.
8. Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.
9. He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.
10. There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.
11. He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.
12. There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.
13. He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one.
14. He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.