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And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whose[a] appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen was in his hand and a reed for measurement; he was standing in the gate. And the man spoke to me, “Son of man,[b] look with your eyes and listen with your ears and apply[c] your heart to all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show you this; tell all that you are seeing to the house of Israel.”

The Eastern Gate

And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it,[d] and in the hand of the man the reed[e] for measurement was six long cubits, according to[f] the cubit[g] and a handbreadth,[h] and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,[i] and the height as one reed.[j]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:3 Hebrew “his”
  2. Ezekiel 40:4 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  3. Ezekiel 40:4 Or “set/put”
  4. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “all around, all around”
  5. Ezekiel 40:5 Or “rod”
  6. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “with/in”
  7. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 18 inches
  8. Ezekiel 40:5 A handbreadth wasabout 3 inches; the reed/rod was 10.5 feet long
  9. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, 10.5 feet
  10. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 10.5 feet