Ezekiel 40:3-5

New Living Translation

³As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod.

⁴He said to me, “Son of man, watch and listen. Pay close attention to everything I show you. You have been brought here so I can show you many things. Then you will return to the people of Israel and tell them everything you have seen.”

The East Gateway

⁵I could see a wall completely surrounding the Temple area. The man took a measuring rod that was 10 1⁄2 feet^[a] long and measured the wall, and the wall was 10 1⁄2 feet^[b] thick and 10 1⁄2 feet high.

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Footnotes

40:5a Hebrew 6 long cubits [3.2 meters], each being a cubit [18 inches or 45 centimeters] and a handbreadth [3 inches or 8 centimeters] in length.
40:5b Hebrew 1 rod [3.2 meters]; also in 40:5c, 7.