3 When he brought me there, I saw a man standing in the gate. He appeared to be bronze, and he had a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
4 The man spoke to me, "Human one, look and listen well, and take seriously everything I show you, because you were brought here so that these things could be revealed to you. Describe everything you see to the house of Israel."
5 Now there was an outer wall that went all the way around the temple compound. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was ten and a half feet (based on a standard eighteen inches plus three inches). When he measured the wall’s height and width it was ten and a half feet high and ten and a half feet wide.
6 He entered the gate facing east. He went up its steps, and he measured the plaza at the gate. It was ten and a half feet wide: the plaza was ten and a half feet wide.
7 The rooms were ten and a half feet long and ten and a half feet wide, with a space of seven and a half feet between them. The plaza next to the porch at the gate opposite the temple was ten and a half feet.
8 He measured the porch of the gate opposite the temple: it was ten and a half feet.
9 Then he measured the porch of the gate: it was twelve feet, and its arches were three feet. The porch of the gate was opposite the temple.