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Then the man went to the east gate. He went up its steps and measured the opening of the gate. It was more than 10½ feet wide. There were rooms for the guards. They were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide. The walls that came out between the guards’ rooms were about 9 feet thick. And there was a gate next to the porch that faced the Temple. The opening of this gate was 10½ feet wide.

Then the man measured the porch of the gate.

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Then he went to the east gate.(A) He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep. The alcoves(B) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[a] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

Then he measured the portico of the gateway;

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verse 48