Moff EZE Chapter 40

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40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the begin- ning of the year, on the tenth of the month, the fourteenth year since the city had been captured, that very day the hand of the Eternal was laid upon me in a trance, 2 and he brought me in visions of God to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, upon which was a building like a city in front of me. 3 When he brought me thither, there stood a man whose appearance was like shining bronze, with a measuring tape of flax in his hand and also a measuring rod! The man stood at the gateway, 4 and he said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes and listen with your ears, and fix your mind upon all that I am going to show you, for this is why you have been brought hither, that I might show it all to you; then tell the house of Israel whatever you see.”

5 There, all round the outside of the building, a wall ran; and when the man measured it with the measuring rod in his hand, which was ten and a half feet long, he found the wall was ten and a half feet thick and ten and a half feet high. 6 He then went to the gatehouse facing eastward and, climbing the steps, measured the outer lobby; it was ten and a half feet. 7 Each of the guard-rooms was ten and a half feet long and ten and a half feet broad, with a space of eight feet and three-quarters between them, 8 while the inside lobby of the gatehouse at the vestibule facing in to the temple was ten and a half feet. 9 He then measured the vestibule itself, which was fourteen feet, while the jambs were three feet six. 10 This gatehouse facing eastward had three guard-rooms on each side, all of the same size, like the spaces between them. 11 He measured the breadth of the outside entrance; it was seventeen and a half feet . . . 12 a partition projected for twenty-one inches below the guard-rooms, on either side of the passage, while the guard-rooms themselves were ten and a half feet square. 13 The gatehouse measured forty-three and three-quarters feet across, from the back door of one guard-room to another, 14 while the vestibule measured thirty-five feet—the vestibule leading from the gatehouse into the outer court. 15 From the outside front to the inner entry the gatehouse measured eighty-seven feet and a half. 16 Latticed loopholes were let into the guard-rooms, the spaces between them, and also the porch, all round the interior, while the jambs were decorated with palms.

17 Then he took me into the outer court, and there were chambers fronting on a pavement which ran round the walls of the court; thirty chambers there were, 18 and this the lower pavement was next the gateways, corresponding to them in breadth. 19 Then he measured the breadth of the court between the inside of the outer gate and the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred and seventy-five feet, measured alike from east and north. 20 He also measured the length and breadth of the gateway of the outer court which faced northward; 21 it had three guard-rooms on each side, the jambs and porch were the same size as those of the first gate, and it was eighty-seven and a half feet long by forty-three and three-quarters broad. 22 The windows, its porch, and its palms were the same size as those of the gatehouse facing eastward; it was reached by a flight of seven steps, and the porch looked inward. 23 The inner court had a gatehouse opposite the outer gatehouse, to the north and to the east, at a distance of a hundred and seventy-five feet, measured from one gatehouse to another. 24 He then led me southward, and there was a gatehouse facing southward; he took the same measurements of the jambs and the porch; 25 it had latticed loopholes, as the porch had, all round, like the other loopholes, and was eighty-seven and a half feet long, by forty-three and three-quarters in breadth. 26 It was reached by seven steps, and the porch looked inward; it had also palms upon the jambs on either side. 27 There was also a gatehouse in the inner court facing southward; he measured the distance between them, a hundred and seventy-five feet.

28 He then took me into the inner court through the southern gatehouse, taking the same measurements of the southern gateway, with its guard-rooms, its jambs, and its porch; 29 it had loopholes, as the porch had, all round, and was eighty-seven and a half feet long, by forty-three and three-quarters in breadth. 31 The porch looked outward, the jambs were decorated with palms, and it was reached by eight steps. 32 He then took me into the inner court on the east side, taking the same measurements of that gatehouse, with its guard-rooms, its jambs, and its porch; 33 it had loopholes, as the porch had, all round, and was eighty-seven and a half feet long by forty-three and three-quarters in breadth. 34 The porch looked outward, the jambs on both sides were decorated with palms, and it was reached by eight steps. 35 He took me to the northern gatehouse, taking the same measurements of it, 36 of the guard-rooms, the jambs, and the porch; it also had loopholes all round, and it was eighty-seven and a half feet long, by forty-three and three-quarters in breadth. 37 The porch looked outward, the jambs on both sides were decorated with palms, and it was reached by eight steps.

38 There was a chamber entering from the porch of the gatehouse, where they washed the burnt-offering victims. 39 And on each side of the porch of the gatehouse stood two tables, for slaying the victims for the burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the guilt-offering. 40 On the outside, at the stair on the north side of the entry, stood two tables, and on the opposite side of the porch stood two tables. 41 Four tables stood on either side of the gatehouse, eight tables in all, for the purposes of slaughter. 42 Four tables for the burnt-offering were cut out of stone, two and a half feet in length, two and a half feet in breadth, and twenty-one inches in height; on these they laid the implements for slaying the victims for the burnt-offering [[and the sacrifice]]. 43 Inside the porch there were ledges fastened all round, nine inches broad. The sacrificial flesh lay on the tables. 44 Outside the inner gatehouses there were two chambers in the inner court, one beside the northern gatehouse, facing southward, and the other beside the southern gatehouse, facing northward. 45 And he said to me, “This chamber to the south is for the priests who are in charge of the temple; 46 the chamber to the north is for the priests who are in charge of the altar, that is, for the sons of Zadok, the Levites who approach the Eternal to minister.” 47 He measured the court--a hundred and seventy-five feet long, by a hundred and seventy-five feet broad—also the altar in front of the temple. 48 Then he took me to the vestibule of the temple and measured each jamb on either side, eight feet and three-quarters thick; the entrance was twenty-four and a half feet broad, and the side-pieces of the entrance of the vestibule were each five and a quarter feet. 49 The vestibule itself was thirty-five feet long, by nineteen and a quarter broad, and it was reached by a flight of ten steps, while two pillars stood one on each side of the jambs.

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