Ezekiel 40:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ When he had brought me there, I beheld a man whose appearance was like that of bronze. He had a linen cord^[a] and a measuring rod in his hand, and he was standing in the gateway. ⁴ The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen attentively, and pay close attention to all that I will show you. That is the reason why you were brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything that you see.”

⁵ 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^[b] being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. He measured the thickness and the height of the wall; each was one rod.