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And the man spoke to me, “Son of man,[a] look with your eyes and listen with your ears and apply[b] 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

And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it,[c] and in the hand of the man the reed[d] for measurement was six long cubits, according to[e] the cubit[f] and a handbreadth,[g] and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,[h] and the height as one reed.[i] And then he went toward[j] the gate whose face was to the east.[k] And he went up by[l] its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed[m] wide.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:4 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  2. Ezekiel 40:4 Or “set/put”
  3. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “all around, all around”
  4. Ezekiel 40:5 Or “rod”
  5. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “with/in”
  6. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 18 inches
  7. Ezekiel 40:5 A handbreadth wasabout 3 inches; the reed/rod was 10.5 feet long
  8. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, 10.5 feet
  9. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 10.5 feet
  10. Ezekiel 40:6 Or “to”
  11. Ezekiel 40:6 Literally “to the way toward the east”
  12. Ezekiel 40:6 Or “with”
  13. Ezekiel 40:6 That is, about 10.5 feet