Chapter 40

  In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.  

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  In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.  

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  He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.  

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  The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.  

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  Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.  

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  Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.  

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  Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.  

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  He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.  

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  Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.  

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  The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.  

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  He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;  

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  and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.  

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  He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.  

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  He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, round about the gate.  

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  [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.  

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  There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm-trees.  

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  Then brought he me into the outer court; and, behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were on the pavement.  

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  The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.  

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  Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.  

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  The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.  

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  The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.  

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  The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm-trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.  

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  There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.  

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  He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.  

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  There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.  

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  There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.  

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  There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.  

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  Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;  

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  and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.  

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  There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.  

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  The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.  

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  He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;  

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  and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.  

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  The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.  

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  He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;  

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  the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.  

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  The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.  

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  A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.  

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  In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.  

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  On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.  

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  Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices].  

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  There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.  

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  The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.  

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  Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.  

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  He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;  

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  and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.  

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  He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.  

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  Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.  

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  The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.  

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