Chapter 40

¹ And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me ² in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it [there was] as it were the frame of a city before [me].

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³ And he brought me in thither, and, behold, [there was] a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder’s line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate. ⁴ And the man said to me,

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⁵ And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man’s hand a reed, the measure [of it was] six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

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⁶ And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed. ⁷ And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits. ⁸ And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed. ⁹ And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate) eight cubits; and the posts thereof two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward: ¹⁰ and the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front [were] three on one side and three on the other, and [there was] one measure to the three: [there was] one measure to the porches on this side and on that. ¹¹ And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits. ¹² And the space before the chambers was narrowed to a cubit in front of the chambers on this side and on that side: and the chamber was six cubits this way, and six cubits that way.

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¹³ And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber: the breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate. ¹⁴ And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate. ¹⁵ And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

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¹⁶ And [there were] secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within: and on the porch [there were] palm trees on this side and on that side.

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¹⁷ And he brought me into the inner court, and, behold, [there were] chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns. ¹⁸ And the porticoes were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle. ¹⁹ And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inward to the open space of the gate looking outward: a hundred cubits [was the distance to the place] of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north; ²⁰ and behold a gate looking northward [belonging to] the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth; ²¹ and the chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits. ²² And its windows, and its porches, and its palm trees, were according to [the dimensions of] the gate looking eastward; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porches were within. ²³ And [there was] a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

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²⁴ And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southward: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions. ²⁵ And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was five and twenty cubits. ²⁶ And it had seven steps, and porches within: and it [had] palm trees on the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side. ²⁷ And [there was] a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.

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²⁸ And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures; ²⁹ and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches, according to these measures: and [there were] windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and [its] breadth twenty-five cubits, ³¹ from the porch to the outer court: and [there were] palm trees to the post [thereof], and eight steps.

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³² And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures: ³³ and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and [there were] windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty-five cubits. ³⁴ And [there were] porches [opening] into the inner court, and palm trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it [had] eight steps.

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³⁵ And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured [it] according to these measures; ³⁶ and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches: and it [had] windows round about, and [it had] its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. ³⁷ And its porches were toward the inner court; and [there were] palm trees to the posts on this side and on that side: and it [had] eight steps.

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³⁸ Its chambers and its doorways, and its porches at the second gate [served as] a drain, ³⁹ that they might slay in it the sin offerings, and the trespass offerings. ⁴⁰ And behind the drain for the whole burnt offerings at the north [gate], two tables eastward behind the second gate; and [behind] the porch of the gate two tables eastward. ⁴¹ Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices. ⁴² And [there were] four tables of hewn stone for whole burnt offerings, the breadth [of them was] a cubit and a half, and the length [of them] two cubits [and] a half, and [their] height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole burnt offerings and the victims. ⁴³ And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering [them] from the wet and from the heat.

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⁴⁴ And he brought me into the inner court, and behold [there were] two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north. ⁴⁵ And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house. ⁴⁶ And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar: they are the sons of Zadok, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord to serve him.

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⁴⁷ And he measured the court, the length [whereof was] a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house. ⁴⁸ And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door [was] fourteen cubits, and the side pieces of the door of the porch [were] three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side. ⁴⁹ And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and they went up to it by ten steps; and [there were] pillars to the porch, one on this side and one on that side.

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