Ezekiel 40:5-16

New International Reader's Version

The East Gate to the Outer Courtyard

⁵ I saw a wall that completely surrounded the temple area. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was 11 feet long. He measured the wall with it. The wall was as thick and as high as one measuring rod.

⁶ Then the man went to the east gate. He climbed its steps. He measured the gateway. It was one rod wide. ⁷ The rooms where the guards stood were one rod long and one rod wide. The walls between the rooms were almost nine feet thick. The gateway next to the porch was one rod wide. The porch faced the front of the temple.

⁸ Then the man measured the porch of the gateway. ⁹ It was 14 feet wide. Each of its doorposts was three and a half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the front of the temple.

¹⁰ Inside the east gate were three rooms on each side. All the rooms were the same size. The walls on each side of the rooms had the same thickness. ¹¹ Then the man measured the entrance of the gateway. It was 18 feet wide and 23 feet long. ¹² In front of each room was a wall. It was 21 inches high. The rooms measured 11 feet on each side. ¹³ Then he measured the gateway from the back wall of one room to the back wall of the room across from it. It was 44 feet from the top of one wall to the top of the other. ¹⁴ He measured along the front of the side walls all around the inside of the gateway. The total was 105 feet. That didn’t include the porch that faced the courtyard. ¹⁵ It was 88 feet from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its porch. ¹⁶ The rooms and their side walls inside the gateway had narrow openings on top of them. So did the porch. All the openings faced the inside. The front of each side wall was decorated with a palm tree.