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.
15. From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.
16. There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees.
17. Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
18. The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
19. Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.
20. He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.
21. Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.
22. Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.