The new temple
1AT the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the twenty-fifth year of our exile, that is fourteen years after the city had fallen, on that very day the hand of the LORD came upon me and he brought me there.
2In a vision from God I was brought to the land of Israel and set on a very high mountain, on which were what seemed to be the buildings of a city to the south.
3He led me towards it, and I saw a man like a figure of bronze standing at the gate and holding a cord of linen thread and a measuring rod.
4“O man,” he said to me, “look closely and listen carefully; note well all that I show you, for this is why you have been brought here. Tell the Israelites everything you see.”
5Right round the outside of the temple ran a wall. The length of the rod which the man was holding was six cubits, reckoning by the long cubit which was one cubit and a hand's breadth. He measured the thickness and the height of the wall; each was one rod.
6The man went to the gate which faced eastwards, and mounting its steps he measured the threshold of the gateway; its depth was one rod.
7Each cell was one rod long and one rod wide; and there was a space of five cubits between the cells. The threshold of the gateway at the end of the vestibule on the side facing the temple was one rod.
8He measured the vestibule of the gateway
9and it was eight cubits, with pilasters two cubits thick; the vestibule of the gateway lay at the end nearer the temple.
10Now the cells of the gateway, looking back eastwards, were three in number on each side, all of the same size, and their pilasters on either side were also identical in size.
11He measured the entrance to the gateway; it was ten cubits wide, and the width of the gateway itself throughout its length was thirteen cubits.
12In front of the cells on each side lay a kerb, one cubit wide; each cell was six cubits by six.
13He measured the width of the gateway through the cell doors which faced one another, from the back of one cell to the back of the opposite cell; he made it twenty-five cubits,
14and the vestibule twenty cubits across; the gateway on every side projected into the court.
15From the front of the entrance gate to the outer face of the vestibule of the inner gate the distance was fifty cubits.
16Both cells and pilasters had embrasures all round inside the gateway, and the vestibule had windows all round within, and each pilaster was decorated with carved palm trees.
17The man brought me to the outer court, and I saw rooms and a pavement all round the court: there were thirty rooms along the pavement.
18The pavement ran up to the side of the gateways, as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement.
19He measured the width of the court from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner gateway; it was a hundred cubits. The man led me round to the north
20and I saw a gateway facing north belonging to the outer court, and he measured its length and its breadth.
21Its cells, three on each side, together with its pilasters and its vestibule, were the same size as those of the first gateway, fifty cubits long by twenty-five wide.
22So too its windows, and those of its vestibule, and its palm trees were the same size as those of the gateway which faced east; it was approached by seven steps with its vestibule facing them.
23A gate like that on the east side led to the inner court opposite the north gateway; he measured from gateway to gateway, and it was a hundred cubits.
24Then the man led me round to the south, where I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its cells, its pilasters, and its vestibule, and found it the same size as the others,
25fifty cubits long by twenty-five wide. Both gateway and vestibule had windows all round like the others.
26It was approached by seven steps with a vestibule facing them and palms carved on each pilaster.
27The inner court had a gateway facing south, and when he measured from gateway to gateway it was a hundred cubits.
28The man brought me into the inner court through the south gateway, measured it, and found it the same size as the others.
29So were its cells, pilasters, and vestibule, fifty cubits long by twenty-five wide. The court and its vestibule had windows all round.
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31Its vestibule faced the outer court; it had palm trees carved on its pilasters, and eight steps led up to it.
32The man brought me to the inner court on the east side and measured the gateway, and he found it the same size as the others.
33So too were its cells, pilasters, and vestibule; it and its vestibule had windows all round, and it was fifty cubits long by twenty-five wide.
34Its vestibule gave on to the outer court and had a palm tree carved on each pilaster; eight steps led up to it.
35Then the man brought me to the north gateway and measured it and found it the same size as the others.
36So were its cells, pilasters, and vestibule, and it had windows all round; it was fifty cubits long by twenty-five wide.
37Its vestibule faced the outer court and had palm trees carved on the pilaster at each side; eight steps led up to it.
38Opening off the vestibule of the gateway was a room in which the whole-offerings were to be washed.
39On each side at the vestibule were two tables where the whole-offering, the purification-offering, and the reparation-offering were to be slaughtered.
40At the corner on the outside, on the way up to the entrance of the north gateway, stood two tables, and two more at the other corner of the vestibule of the gateway;
41another four stood on each side at the corner of the gateway -- eight tables in all, at which the slaughtering was to be done.
42Four tables used for the whole-offering were of hewn stone, each one and a half cubits long by one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high; and on them they put the instruments used for the whole-offering and other sacrifices.
43The flesh of the offerings was on the tables, and rims a hand's breadth in width were fixed all round facing inwards.
44Then the man brought me right into the inner court, where there were two rooms, one at the corner of the north gateway, facing south, and one at the corner of the south gateway, facing north.
45This room facing south, the man told me, is for the priests in charge of the temple buildings.
46The room facing north is for the priests in charge of the altar: that is, the descendants of Zadok, who alone of the Levites may come near to serve the LORD.
47He measured the court; it was square, a hundred cubits each way, and the altar stood in front of the temple.
48The man brought me into the vestibule of the temple, and measured a pilaster of the vestibule; it was five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits, and that of the corners of the gateway three cubits in each direction.
49The vestibule was twenty cubits long by twelve wide; ten steps led up to it, and by the pilasters rose pillars, one on either side.
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