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Then I beheld an outer wall that surrounded the temple on all sides. The length of the measuring rod that the man was holding was six cubits long, each cubit[a] being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. He measured the thickness and the height of the wall; each was one rod.

The East Gate. Then he went to the gate which faced eastward, mounted its steps, and measured the gate’s threshold; it was one rod deep. Each cell was one rod long and one rod wide, and the walls between the cells measured five cubits. The threshold of the gate adjoining the vestibule of the gate at the inner end measured one rod.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 The measuring rod was about 340 cm. The cubit was about 58 cm.