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Ezekiel 40

40 It was 24 years after the Babylonians forcibly removed us Israelites from our land. It was 13 years after the Babylonians conquered the city of Jerusalem. It was the tenth day of the first month. On that day, Yahweh acted powerfully toward me and took me somewhere. 2 God did this in something like a dream. He took me to the area where the Israelites lived and had me stand on a very tall mountain. On the south side of the mountain were buildings that together looked like a city. 3 Then Yahweh took me to those buildings. There, I saw a man! He was standing at an entrance, and he shone like bronze. He was holding a linen rope and a stick for measuring things. 4 The man told me, “Mortal human, God took you to this place so that you would learn things. So, you must look at, listen to, and think carefully about everything that I will show you. Later, you must tell the Israelites everything that you learned.”

5 Now the stick that the man was holding was for measuring things using longer measurements than normal. It was about 3.2 meters long. Then I saw a wall that went all the way around the area where the building was. The man used the stick to measure the wall. It was 3.2 meters thick and 3.2 meters tall. 6 Then the man went to the gatehouse on the east side of the wall and climbed up its stairs. He measured the threshold. It was 3.2 meters deep. 7 Inside the gatehouse, there were small side rooms. They were 2.7 meters apart. Each side room was 3.2 meters deep and 3.2 meters wide. Where the gatehouse opened toward the building, there was an entryway. Inside the entryway, there was a threshold. It was 3.2 meters deep. 8 The man measured the entryway where the gatehouse opened toward the building. 9 It was 4.3 meters deep. The walls around its opening were 1.1 meters deep. That was what the man measured for the entryway where the gatehouse opened toward the building. 10 Inside the gatehouse on the east side, there were three small side rooms on each side of the hallway. Each of them was the same size. The walls around each of their openings were the same size. 11 The man measured the open space for the gatehouse’s door. It was 5.4 meters wide. The gatehouse’s hallway was seven meters wide. 12 In front of each small side room, there was a half wall. Each half wall was 54 centimeters wide, and each small side room was 3.2 meters on each side. 13 Then the man measured along the top of the gatehouse from the back of one small side room to the back of the small side room on the other side of the hallway. It was 13.5 meters wide. 14 He measured all the walls around the gatehouse’s openings, ending at the walls around the opening to the courtyard. They were 32.4 meters high. 15 He measured from the front of the gatehouse, where people entered, to the end of the entryway on the inside. It was 27 meters. 16 There were niches on the inside of the small side rooms, on the walls around their openings, and in the entryway all around the inside of the gatehouse. Carvings of palm trees were on the walls around the gatehouse’s openings.

17 Then the man had me walk into the courtyard that was between the outer wall and the inner wall. I saw stone flooring all the way around the inside of the outer wall. I also saw 30 rooms. Their back walls were the outer wall, and they opened to the inside onto the stone flooring. 18 The stone flooring stretched out into the courtyard as far as each of the gatehouses did. This flooring was lower than the courtyard inside the inner wall. 19 The man measured from the inner side of the gatehouse in the outer wall that was lower than the courtyard inside the inner wall. He measured to the outside of the courtyard inside the inner wall. It was 54 meters long. That was what the man measured for the gatehouse on the east side. Then, we went to the gatehouse on the north side.

20 He measured the gatehouse on the north side of the outer wall. He measured how deep and how long it was. 21 It had three small side rooms on each side of the hallway, walls around its openings, and entryway. They were all exactly the same size as the ones in the gatehouse on the eastern side. The gatehouse was 27 meters long and 13.5 meters wide. 22 It had niches, an entryway, and carvings of palm trees. They were all exactly the same size as the ones in the gatehouse on the eastern side. People had to walk up seven steps to enter the gatehouse. When they did, the entryway was directly in front of them. 23 Just as there was on the east side, on the north side there was a gatehouse through the inner wall in line with the outer gatehouse. The man measured from this inner gate to the gate through the outer wall on the north side. It was 54 meters.

24 Then, the man had me walk to the south side of the courtyard. There, I saw the gatehouse on the south side of the wall. He measured the walls around its openings and its entryway. They were the same size as the ones in the other gatehouses. 25 There were niches all around the inside of the gatehouse and its entryway. They were the same as the niches in the other gatehouses. This gatehouse was 27 meters long and 13.5 meters wide. 26 People had to walk up seven steps to enter the gatehouse. When they did, the entryway was directly in front of them. On each of the walls around its openings there were carvings of palm trees. 27 On the south side there was a gatehouse through the inner wall. The man measured from this inner gate to the gate through the outer wall on the south side. It was 54 meters.

28 Then he brought me into the inner courtyard through the south gateway, and he measured that gateway. It had the same measurements as the other gateways. 29 Its alcoves, its gateposts, and its side rooms had the same measurements as the others. This gateway and its side rooms had windows all the way around. The gateway was 27 meters long and 13.5 meters wide. 30 The side rooms all the way around were 13.5 meters long and 2.7 meters wide. 31 Its side rooms faced the outer courtyard, and carvings of palm trees decorated its gateposts. Eight steps led up to it.

32 Then he brought me into the inner courtyard on the east side, and he measured that gateway. It had the same measurements as the others. 33 Its alcoves, its gateposts, and its side rooms had the same measurements as the others. This gateway and its side rooms had windows all the way around. It was 27 meters long and 13.5 meters wide. 34 Its side rooms faced the outer courtyard, and carvings of palm trees decorated its gateposts on each side. Eight steps led up to it.

35 Then he brought me to the north gateway and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others—36 its alcoves, its gateposts, and its side rooms all matched. This gateway had windows all the way around, and it was 27 meters long and 13.5 meters wide. 37 Its gateposts faced the outer courtyard, and carvings of palm trees decorated its gateposts on each side. Eight steps led up to it.

38 There was a room with a doorway beside the gateposts of the gateways. There the priests would rinse the animals that they would burn completely on the altar. 39 In the porch of that gateway there were two tables on each side. On those tables the priests would slaughter the animals for the offerings that they burned completely, for the offerings that took away people’s sin, and for the offerings that removed people’s guilt. 40 Outside the porch, beside the steps that anyone would climb to reach the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables. On the other side of the porch of the gateway there were two more tables. 41 So there were four tables on one side and four tables on the other side beside the gateway, eight tables in all, and on them the priests slaughtered the animals. 42 There were also four tables of cut stone for the offerings that the priests burned completely. Each of these tables was 80 centimeters long, 80 centimeters wide, and 54 centimeters high. On those tables the priests would lay the tools that they used to slaughter the animals for the offerings that they burned completely and for the other sacrifices. 43 Workers had fastened hooks eight centimeters long to the walls all the way around the room. The priests would put the meat of the offerings on the tables.

44 Outside the inner gateway, in the inner courtyard, there were rooms for the singers. One room stood beside the north gateway and faced south, and another room stood beside the east gateway and faced north. 45 The man said to me, “This room that faces south is for the priests who are in charge of the work in the temple. 46 The room that faces north is for the priests who are in charge of the work at the altar. These priests are the descendants of Zadok. Among all the descendants of Levi, they are the only ones whom Yahweh permits to come near to him in order to serve him.” 47 Then he measured the courtyard. It formed a square, 54 meters long and 54 meters wide. The altar stood in front of the temple.

48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple, and he measured the gateposts of the porch; each one was 2.7 meters thick. The walls on each side of the entrance were 1.6 meters wide. 49 The porch was 11 meters long and 5.9 meters wide. People would climb steps to reach it. Pillars stood beside the gateposts, one pillar on each side.

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