Ezekiel 40:5-7

Lexham English Bible

The Eastern Gate

⁵ And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it,^[a] and in the hand of the man the reed^[b] for measurement was six long cubits, according to^[c] the cubit^[d] and a handbreadth,^[e] and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,^[f] and the height as one reed.^{[g] 6} And then he went toward^[h] the gate whose face was to the east.^[i] And he went up by^[j] its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed^[k] wide. ⁷ And the alcove^[l] was one reed^[m] long and one reed^[n] wide,^[o] and between the alcoves was five cubits,^[p] and the threshold of the gate along the side of the portico of the gate on the inside^[q] was one reed.^[r]