¹⁵ When he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faces east and measured the temple area all around.^(A)

The Divine Glory Returns to the Temple

43 Then he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east.^(A)

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

The nave of the temple’s interior and the outer^[b] vestibule^(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.^{(A) 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^[a] of the entrance, seven cubits.^{(B) 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.”^(C)

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 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^{(A) 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.^{(B) 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.^{(C) 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](D) 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.^(E)