5 There was a wall surrounding the temple area. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was just over three metres long. (It was six long cubits—each long cubit was a cubit long plus a handbreadth.) So he measured the wall, and it was one measuring rod thick and one high.[ref] 6 Then he went to the temple gate that faced east. He went up its steps and measured the gate’s threshold—one rod across. 7 The guard chambers were each one rod long and deep, and just under three metres wide. The temple gate threshold by the temple porch was one rod across. 8 He measured the porch inside the gate and it was one rod long, 9 and the porch over the gate was one rod deep. The doorposts were each a metre wide. (This was the porch at the gate facing the temple.) 10 There were three guard chambers on either side of the east gate, and each of them was the same size, and the walls that separated them were the same size.

11 Then the man measured the width of the gateway entrance and it was five metres, and the length of the gateway entrance was almost seven metres. 12 He measured the wall that ran along the front of the chambers at half a metre high. The chambers measured three metres on each side. 13 Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one chamber to that of the next chamber, and it was thirteen metres from the entrance of the first chamber to that of the second. 14 Then he measured the wall that went between the guard chambers, and it was over thirty metres long as far as the gate’s porch. 15 The entrance from the front of the gate to the other end of the gate’s porch was twenty-seven metres. 16 There were closed windows facing the chambers and toward their pillars within the gates all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and each of the door jambs was decorated with carvings of palm trees.