Ezekiel 40

And it happened in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that day the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me,

in a vision of God, into the land of Israel, and he set me upon a very high mountain; and upon it, opposite, was as it were the building of a city.

And he brought me there, and behold, a man; and his appearance was like the appearance of gleaming bronze, and in his hand was a builders' cord and a measuring reed; and he was standing at the gate.

And the man said to me: Have you seen, son of man? Look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set in your heart all that I show you; for it is for the sake of showing you that you have come in here; and you shall show all that you see to the house of Israel.

And behold, an enclosure outside the house round about; and in the man's hand a reed, the measure being six cubits by the cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the outer wall: the breadth equal to the reed, and its height equal to the reed.

And he went into the gate that looks toward the east, by seven steps, and he measured the ailam of the gate, equal to the reed.

And the thee: equal to the reed in length and equal to the reed in breadth; and the ailam between the thaielatha, six cubits; and the second thee: equal to the reed in breadth and equal to the reed in length; and the ailam, five cubits.

And the third thee: equal to the reed in breadth and equal to the reed in length.

And the ailam of the gateway, next to the ailam of the gate, eight cubits; and the aileu, two cubits; and the ailam of the gate was within.

And the thee of the gate: thee opposite thee, three on this side and three on that; and one measure for the three, and one measure for the ailam on this side and on that.

And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits, and the width of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

And a cubit gathered up before the face of the theim on this side and on that; and the thee, six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

And he measured the gate from the wall of the thee to the wall of the thee, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; this gate facing gate.

And the open court of the ailam of the gate, sixty cubits; twenty theim of the gate round about.

And from the open court of the gate outside to the open court of the ailam of the gate within, fifty cubits.

And hidden windows upon the theim and upon the ailam within the gate of the court round about; and likewise for the ailam, windows round about within; and upon the ailam, palm trees on this side and on that.

And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, chambers and colonnades round about the court, thirty chambers in the colonnades.

And the porticoes at the back of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates: the lower colonnade.

And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open court of the outer gate within to the open court of the gate that looks outward, a hundred cubits, of the one that looks eastward. And he brought me toward the north.

And behold, a gate looking toward the north, belonging to the outer court; and he measured it, both its length and its breadth.

And the thee, three on this side and three on that, and the aileu and the ailammo and its palm trees; and it was according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: fifty cubits its length and twenty-five cubits its width.

And its windows and the ailammo and its palm trees were just as the gate that looks eastward; and by seven steps they would go up to it; and the ailammo were within.

And there was a gate for the inner court looking toward the gate of the north, in the same way as the gate that looks eastward; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

And he led me toward the south, and behold, a gate looking toward the south; and he measured it and the thee and the aileu and the ailammo, according to these measures.

And its windows and the ailammo round about, just as the windows of the ailam: fifty cubits its length and twenty-five cubits its width.

And it had seven steps, and ailammo within, and it had palm trees, one on this side and one on that, upon the aileu.

And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court toward the south; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits the width toward the south.

And he brought me into the inner court by the gate that is toward the south; and he measured the gate according to these measures.

And the thee and the aileu and the ailammo, according to these measures; and it had windows, and the ailammo round about: fifty cubits its length and its width twenty-five cubits.

And the ailammo toward the outer court; and palm trees for the aileu; and eight steps.

And he brought me to the gate that looks eastward, and he measured it according to these measures.

And the thee and the aileu and the ailammo, according to these measures; and it had windows, and the ailammo round about: fifty cubits its length and its width twenty-five cubits.

And the ailammo toward the inner court; and palm trees upon the aileu on this side and on that; and it had eight steps.

And he brought me to the gate that is toward the north, and he measured according to these measures.

And the thee and the aileu and the ailammo; and it had windows round about, and its ailammo: fifty cubits its length and its width twenty-five cubits.

And the ailammo toward the outer court; and palm trees for the aileu on this side and on that; and it had eight steps.

Its chambers and its doorways and its ailammo were at the gate

of the second: an outflow, so that in it they might slaughter the offerings for sin and for ignorance.

And at the back of the runnel of the whole burnt offerings, of the one that looks toward the north, two tables toward the east; and at the back of the second and of the ailam of the gate, two tables toward the east.

Four on this side and four on that, at the back of the gate; upon them they shall slaughter the victims, opposite the eight tables of the victims.

And four tables for the whole burnt offerings, of hewn stone: a cubit and a half the breadth, and two cubits and a half the length, and a cubit the height; upon them they shall lay the implements with which they slaughter there the whole burnt offerings and the victims.

And they shall have a hewn ledge of a handbreadth within round about; and above the tables, roofs for covering from the rain and from the dry heat.

And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, two chambers in the inner court, one at the back of the gate that looks toward the north, facing toward the south, and one at the back of the gate that is toward the south but looking toward the north.

And he said to me: This chamber that looks toward the south is for the priests who keep the charge of the house.

And the chamber that looks toward the north is for the priests who keep the charge of the altar. These are the sons of Sadduk, those of Leui who draw near to the Lord to minister to him.

And he measured the court, a hundred cubits in length and a hundred cubits in width, on its four sides; and the altar was in front of the house.

And he brought me into the ailam of the house, and he measured the ail of the ailam, five cubits the breadth on this side and five cubits on that; and the width of the doorway, fourteen cubits; and the shoulder-pieces of the door of the ailam, three cubits on this side and three cubits on that.

And the length of the ailam, twenty cubits, and the width, twelve cubits; and by ten steps they would go up to it; and there were pillars upon the ailam, one on this side and one on that.