4 He said to me, “Watch, mortal man. Listen carefully and pay close attention to everything I show you, because this is why you were brought here. You are to tell the people of Israel everything you see.”
5 What I saw was the Temple, and there was a wall round it. The man took his measuring rod, which was three metres long, and measured the wall. It was three metres high and three metres thick.
6 Then he went to the gateway that faced east. He went up the steps, and at the top he measured the entrance; it was three metres deep.
7 Beyond it there was a passage, which had three guardrooms on each side. Each of the rooms was square, three metres on each side, and the walls between them were 2.5 metres thick. Beyond the guardrooms there was a passage three metres long that led to an entrance room which faced the Temple.
8-9 He measured this room, and found it was four metres deep. It formed that end of the gateway which was nearest the Temple, and at its far end the walls were one metre thick.
10 (These guardrooms on each side of the passage were all the same size, and the walls between them were all of the same thickness.)
11 Next, the man measured the width of the passage in the gateway. It was 6.5 metres altogether, and the space between the open gates was five metres.