3. He brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze. He had a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod. He was standing in the gateway.
4. The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, set your heart on all that I show you—for I brought you here in order to show you—and report all that you see to the house of Israel.”
5. Behold, an outer wall was all around the House. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six cubits long, each of which was a normal cubit and a handbreadth. When he measured the thickness of the wall structure, it was one rod, and the height was one rod.
6. Then he went to the gate that faced east and went up its steps. When he measured the threshold of the gate, it was one rod wide. Also the other threshold was one rod wide.
7. Each guard chamber was one rod long and one rod wide. The space between the chambers was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate, facing the House, measured one rod.
8. When he measured the porch of the gate toward the House, it was one rod.
9. When he measured the porch of the gate, it was eight cubits; its pillars were two cubits. The porch of the gate faced the House.
10. Now the guard chambers of the east gate were three on this side, and three on the other side—the three had the same measurement. The side pillars had the same measure on this side and on that side.
11. When he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, it was ten cubits, and the length of the gate was 13 cubits.
12. A barrier wall was in front of the guard chambers, one cubit on each side. Each chamber was six cubits on each side.
13. When he measured the gate from the roof of the one chamber to the roof of the other, the width was 25 cubits, door facing door.
14. Then he did the pillars—60 cubits. A gateway extended all around to the pillar of the courtyard.