³ And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whose^[a] appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen was in his hand and a reed for measurement; he was standing in the gate. ⁴ And the man spoke to me, “Son of man,^[b] look with your eyes and listen with your ears and apply^[c] your heart to all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show you this; tell all that you are seeing to the house of Israel.”

The Eastern Gate

⁵ And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it,^[d] and in the hand of the man the reed^[e] for measurement was six long cubits, according to^[f] the cubit^[g] and a handbreadth,^[h] and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,^[i] and the height as one reed.^[j]