² The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.^(A)

41 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the posts; on each side six cubits was the depth of the posts.^{[a](A) 2} The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. He measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.^{(B) 3} Then he went into the inner room and measured the posts of the entrance, two cubits, and the width of the entrance, six cubits, and the sidewalls^[b] of the entrance, seven cubits.^{(C) 4} He measured the depth of the room, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”^(D)

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. ⁶ The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets^[c] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.^{(E) 7} The passageway^[d] of the side chambers widened from story to story, for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one.^{(F) 8} I saw also that the temple was on a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits high.^{(G) 9} The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and the free space between the side chambers of the temple^{(H) 10} and the chambers of the court was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.^{(I) 11} The side chambers opened onto the area left free, one door toward the north and another door toward the south, and the width of the part that was left free was five cubits all around.^(J)

¹² The building that was facing the temple yard on the west side was seventy cubits deep, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around and its width ninety cubits.^(K)

¹³ Then he measured the temple, one hundred cubits deep, and the yard and the building with its walls, one hundred cubits deep,^{(L) 14} also the width of the east front of the temple and the yard, one hundred cubits.^(M)

¹⁵ Then he measured the width of the building facing the yard at the west, together with its galleries^[e] on either side, one hundred cubits.

The nave of the temple’s interior and the outer^[f] vestibule^(N)

The Vision of the New Temple

40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me there.^{(A) 2} He brought me, in visions of God, to the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain on which was a structure like a city to the south.^{(B) 3} When he brought me there, a man was there whose appearance shone like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand, and he was standing in the gateway.^{(C) 4} The man said to me, “Mortal, look closely and listen attentively, and set your mind on all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”^(D)

⁵ Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area. The length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length, so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed, and the height, one reed. ⁶ Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.^[a] There were^{(E) 7} recesses, and each recess was one reed wide and one reed deep, and the space between the recesses, five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end was one reed deep.^{(F) 8} Then he measured the inner vestibule of the gateway, one reed. ⁹ Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits, and its posts, two cubits, and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. ¹⁰ There were three recesses on either side of the east gate; the three were of the same size, and the posts on either side were of the same size.^{(G) 11} Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits, and the width of the gateway, thirteen cubits. ¹² There was a barrier before the recesses, one cubit on either side, and each recess was six cubits square. ¹³ Then he measured the gate from the back^[b] of the one recess to the back^[c] of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from wall to wall.^{[d] 14} He measured^[e] the vestibule (sixty cubits) and the gate next to the post on every side of the court.^{[f](H) 15} From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. ¹⁶ The recesses and their posts had windows, with shutters^[g] on the inside of the gateway all around, and the vestibules also had windows on the inside all around, and on the posts were palm trees.^(I)

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer court; there were chambers there and a pavement all around the court; thirty chambers fronted on the pavement.^{(J) 18} The pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement. ¹⁹ Then he measured the distance from the inner front of^[h] the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, one hundred cubits.^[i](K)

²⁰ Then he measured the gate of the outer court that faced north—its depth and width. ²¹ Its recesses, three on either side, and its posts and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.^{(L) 22} Its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. Seven steps led up to it, and its vestibule was on the inside.^{[j](M) 23} Opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court; he measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits.^(N)

²⁴ Then he led me toward the south, and there was a gate on the south, and he measured its posts and its vestibule; they had the same dimensions as the others.^{(O) 25} There were windows all around in it and in its vestibule, like the windows of the others; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.^{(P) 26} There were seven steps leading up to it; its vestibule was on the inside.^[k] It had palm trees on its posts, one on either side.^{(Q) 27} There was a gate on the south of the inner court, and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits.^(R)

²⁸ Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it was of the same dimensions as the others.^{(S) 29} Its recesses, its posts, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and there were windows all around in it and in its vestibule; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.^{(T) 30} There were vestibules all around the inner court,^[l] twenty-five cubits deep and five cubits wide.^{(U) 31} Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its posts, and its stairway had eight steps.^(V)

³² Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate; it was of the same size as the others.^{(W) 33} Its recesses, its posts, and its vestibule were of the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around in it and in its vestibule; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.^{(X) 34} Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its posts, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.^(Y)

³⁵ Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others.^{(Z) 36} Its recesses, its posts, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others,^[m] and it had windows all around. Its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.^{(AA) 37} Its vestibule^[n] faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its posts, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.^(AB)

³⁸ There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate^[o] where the burnt offering was to be washed.^{(AC) 39} And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side on which the burnt offering and the purification offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.^{(AD) 40} On the outside of the vestibule, where one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables, and on the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables. ⁴¹ Four tables were on one side and four tables on the other side of the gate, eight tables, on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

¹⁶ The city has four equal sides, its length the same as its width, and he measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits by human measurement, which the angel was using.

³ In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt offerings are brought;^[a] its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,^{(A) 4} with three courses of hewn stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.^(B)