¹In the twenty-fifth year of our deportation, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was attacked, on this very day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ²In the visions of God, he brought me to the land of Israel, and he set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a kind of structure of a city on the south side. ³And he brought me there, and what I saw was a man. His appearance was like the appearance of copper, and he had a cord of flax in his hand, and a measuring rod, and he stood at the gate. ⁴And the man said to me, “Son of Adam, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and take note of everything I show you, for it is in order to show you that you have been brought here. Tell the house of Israel everything that you see.” ⁵And what I saw was a wall outside the house all around, and in the man's hand was the measuring rod, six cubits long as determined by forearm and handbreadth. And he measured the width of the structure: it was one rod-length, and its height was one rod-length. ⁶And he went to the gate which faces east, and he went up its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate: its width was one rod-length. And he measured the other threshold: one rod-length in width. ⁷As for the side-room, its length was one rod-length, and its width was one rod-length, and the distance between the side-rooms was five cubits. And the threshold of the gate to the portico at the gate in front of the house was one rod-length long. ⁸Then he measured the portico at the gate in front of the house: it was one rod-length. ⁹Then he measured the portico at the gate: it was eight cubits. And its turrets measured two cubits. And the portico at the gate was in front of the house. ¹⁰And the side-rooms of the gate on the east were three in number on one side and three in number on the other side. All three of them were of the same size, and the turrets on each side were of one size. ¹¹Then he measured the width of the door to the gate: it was ten cubits. The length of the gate was thirteen cubits. ¹²And the gap in front of the side-rooms was one cubit, and there was a gap of one cubit to the side. And the side-room itself measured six cubits by six cubits. ¹³Then he measured the gate from the roof of a side-room to another's roof: the width was twenty-five cubits from door to door. ¹⁴Then he measured the turrets: they were sixty cubits, this being to a turret in the courtyard, all around the gate. ¹⁵And from the front of the gate of the entrance to the front of the portico of the inner gate it was fifty cubits. ¹⁶And the side-rooms and their turrets had shuttered windows on the sides inside the gate all around, and similarly the porticos. These were the windows all around on the inside. And each turret had palm tree motifs. ¹⁷Then he brought me to the outer court, and what I saw was annexes and a tiled floor, made for the court all around. There were thirty annexes on the tiled floor. ¹⁸And the tiled floor was to the side of the gates. All along the length of the gates was the lower tiled floor. ¹⁹And he measured the width from in front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court on the outside. It was one hundred cubits going east and going north. ²⁰And he measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north. ²¹And the side-rooms to it were three on one side and three on the other side, and its turrets and porticos were according to the measurements of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its width was twenty-five cubits. ²²And its windows and its porticos and its palm tree motifs were according to the measurements of the gate which faces east. And one ascends to it by seven steps, and its porticos were in front of them. ²³And the gate of the inner court was opposite the gate to the north and to the east. And he measured from gate to gate: one hundred cubits. ²⁴Then he led me to the south, and what I saw was the gate to the south, and he measured its turrets and its porticos, and they were as the previous measurements. ²⁵And it had windows, as did its porticos all around like the previous windows. The length was fifty cubits and the width was twenty-five cubits. ²⁶And there were seven steps in its flight of steps, and its portico was in front of them, and its palm tree motifs were the same on one side as on the other side, on its turrets. ²⁷And as for the gate to the inner court to the south, he measured from gate to gate in the south, and it was one hundred cubits. ²⁸Then he brought me to the inner court at the south gate, and he measured the south gate which had the same measurements. ²⁹And its side-rooms and its turrets and its porticos had the same measurements as previously, and it had windows, as did its porticos all around. It was fifty cubits in length, and its width was twenty-five cubits. ³⁰And its porticos all around were twenty-five cubits in length, and their width was five cubits. ³¹And its porticos were facing the outer court, and its turrets had palm tree motifs, and there were eight steps to its staircase. ³²Then he brought me to the inner court, to the east, and he measured the gate. It had the same measurements as the previous ones. ³³And its side-rooms and its turrets and its porticos had the same measurements as the previous ones, and it had windows, as did its porticos all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its width was twenty-five cubits. ³⁴And its porticos were facing the outer court, and its turrets had palm tree motifs on both sides, and there were eight steps to its staircase. ³⁵Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it as having the previous measurements. ³⁶As for its side-rooms, its turrets and its porticos and its windows all around, its length was fifty cubits, and its width was twenty-five cubits. ³⁷And its turrets were facing the outer court, and its turrets had palm tree motifs on both sides, and there were eight steps to its staircase. ³⁸And there was an annex with its entrance by the turrets at the gates. There they washed the burnt offering. ³⁹And in the portico of the gate were two tables on one side and two tables on the other side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering and the sin-offering and the guilt-offering. ⁴⁰And on one side facing outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the northern gate, were two tables, and on the other side which belongs to the portico of the gate were two tables. ⁴¹There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other side, to the sides of the gate – eight tables on which they did the slaughtering. ⁴²And four tables for the burnt offering were made of hewn stone. The length was one and a half cubits, and the width was one and a half cubits, and the height was one cubit. They placed on them the utensils with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice. ⁴³And the hooks were one handbreadth wide, held up in their slots all around. And on the tables was the flesh of the oblation. ⁴⁴And outside the inner gate were the annexes for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate, and they faced south, with one to the side of the eastern gate facing north. ⁴⁵And he said to me, “This is the annex which faces south for the priests who keep guard of the house. ⁴⁶And the annex which faces north is for the priests who keep guard of the altar. They are the sons of Zadok, descended from the sons of Levi, who approach the Lord, to serve him.” ⁴⁷And he measured the courtyard. Its length was one hundred cubits, and its width was one hundred cubits; it was square. And the altar was in front of the house. ⁴⁸Then he brought me to the portico of the house, and he measured the turrets of the portico: five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side. And the width of the gate was three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other side. ⁴⁹The length of the portico was twenty cubits, and the width was eleven cubits, and at the steps by which one goes up to it there were columns by the turrets on each side.