Ezekiel 40:3-15

3The Lord took me there. Then I saw a man who shone brightly like bronze. He was standing at the entrance of a building. He held a linen rope and a stick in his hand. He used them to measure things.

4The man said to me, ‘Son of man, watch and listen carefully to me. Remember everything that I will show you. God has brought you here so that I can show these things to you. Tell Israel's people about everything that you see.’

5I saw a wall all the way round the place where the temple was. The stick in the man's hand was 3 metres long. He used it to measure the wall. The wall was 3 metres wide and 3 metres high.

6Then he went to the gate on the east side. He climbed its steps and he measured the size of the entrance. It was 3 metres deep.

7Beyond this was a passage with three rooms on each side. They were rooms for the guards. Each of these rooms was 3 metres long and 3 metres wide. The walls between the rooms were 2½ metres thick. Beyond them was a passage that was 3 metres long. This went to an entrance room to the yard of the temple.

8The man measured the entrance room at the end of the passage.

9It was 4 metres long. It had pillars that were 1 metre thick. It was the nearest part of the gate to the temple.

10The three rooms on each side of the passage at the east gate were all the same size. The walls that were between each room were also the same size.

11Then the man measured the passage that went through the gate's entrance. The passage was 6½ metres wide. The gate's entrance itself was 5 metres wide.

12There was a low wall in front of the rooms on each side of the passage. It was ½ metre high. The rooms were 3 metres square.

13The man also measured between the back wall of one room and the back wall of the room opposite. It was 12½ metres from one wall to the other wall, across the passage.

14The entrance room had pillars on the outside that were 30 metres high. The yard was all around three sides of the room.

15The passage was 25 metres long, from the gate at the front to the entrance room into the yard.