Ezekiel 40:5-16

The east gate

5 I 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.

6 Then 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. 7 Beyond 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. 8 The man measured the entrance room at the end of the passage. 9 It was 4 metres long. It had pillars that were 1 metre thick. It was the nearest part of the gate to the temple. 10 The 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.

11 Then 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. 12 There 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. 13 The 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. 14 The entrance room had pillars on the outside that were 30 metres high. The yard was all around three sides of the room. 15 The passage was 25 metres long, from the gate at the front to the entrance room into the yard. 16 The rooms for the guards all had small windows in their outside walls. The walls between the rooms also had small windows. The entrance room to the yard also had windows of the same kind. Men had cut pictures of palm trees on the inside walls of the passage.