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Ezekiel 40

Vision of the Man with a Measuring Rod

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In the  atwenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the  bcity was  1taken, on that same day the  chand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.

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In the  avisions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very  bhigh mountain, and on it  cto the south there was a  dstructure like a city.

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So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of  abronze, with a  bline of flax and a  cmeasuring  1rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.

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The man said to me, " aSon of man,  bsee with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you.  cDeclare to the house of Israel all that you see."

Measurements Relating to the Temple

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And behold, there was a  awall on the outside of the  1temple all around, and in the man's hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a  2handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the  3wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

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Then he went to the gate which faced  aeast, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod  1in width; and the other threshold was one rod  1in width.

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The  aguardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate  1facing inward was one rod.

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Then he measured the porch of the gate  1facing inward, one rod.

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He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was  1faced inward.

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The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.

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And he measured the width of the  1gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

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There was a  1barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side.

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He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the door opposite.

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He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the  acourtyard.

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From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

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There were  1 ashuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were  bpalm tree ornaments.

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Then he brought me into the  aouter court, and behold, there were  bchambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers  1faced the pavement.

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The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the  1side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

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Then he measured the width from the front of the  alower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a  bhundred cubits on the east and on the north.

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As for the  agate of the outer court which faced the north, he measured its length and its width.

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 1It had three  aguardrooms on each side; and its  bside pillars and its porches  2had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was  cfifty cubits and the width  dtwenty-five cubits.

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Its  awindows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the  bgate which faced toward the east; and  1it was reached by seven  csteps, and its  2porch was in front of them.

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The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a  ahundred cubits from gate to gate.

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Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a  agate toward the south; and he measured its  bside pillars and its porches according to  1those same measurements.

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 1The gate and its porches had  awindows all around like  2those other windows; the length was  bfifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

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There were seven  asteps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had  bpalm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.

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The inner court had a gate toward the  asouth; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a  bhundred cubits.

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Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate  aaccording to those same measurements.

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Its  aguardrooms also, its side pillars and its  bporches were according to those same measurements. And  1the gate and its porches had  bwindows all around; it was  cfifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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There were  aporches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

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Its porches were toward the outer court; and  apalm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight  bsteps.

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He brought me into the  ainner court toward the east. And he measured the gate  baccording to those same measurements.

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Its  aguardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And  1the gate and its porches had  bwindows all around; it was  cfifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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Its  aporches were toward the outer court; and  apalm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight  bsteps.

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Then he brought me to the  anorth gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements,

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with its  aguardrooms, its side pillars and its  bporches. And  1the gate had  bwindows all around; the length was  cfifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

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Its side pillars were toward the outer court; and  apalm tree ornaments were on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight  bsteps.

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A  achamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they  brinse the burnt offering.

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In the porch of the gate were two  atables on each side, on which to slaughter the  bburnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

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On the outer  1side,  2as one went up to the  3gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other  1side of the porch of the gate were two tables.

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Four  atables were on each side  1next to the gate; or, eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices.

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For the burnt offering there were four  atables of  bhewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the  aburnt offering and the sacrifice.

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The double  1hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed  2in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

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From the outside to the  ainner gate were  1 bchambers for the  csingers in the inner court, one of which was at the  2side of the north gate, with  3its front toward the south, and one at the  2side of the  4south gate facing toward the north.

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He said to me, "This is the  achamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who  bkeep charge of the  1temple;

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but the  achamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who  bkeep charge of the altar. These are the  csons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi  dcome near to the LORD to minister to Him."

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He measured the court, a perfect square, a  ahundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the  1temple.

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Then he brought me to the  aporch of the  1temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.

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The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the  astairway by which it was ascended were  bcolumns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.



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