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The man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you. For you have been brought here to show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

The East Gate

There was a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring reed of six cubits[a] long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth.[b] So he measured the width of the building, one reed. And the height, one reed.

Then he went to the gateway facing east; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed wide. And the other threshold of the gate was one reed wide.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 About 11 feet, or 3.2 meters. The long cubit of about 21 inches, or about 53 centimeters is used throughout ch. 40–48.
  2. Ezekiel 40:5 About 3 inches, or 7.5 centimeters.