Ezekiel 40 — GMV

40 Verse 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 ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 4} And the man said to me, ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 8} And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed. ^{Verse 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: ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 11} And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 14} And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate. ^{Verse 15} And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 18} And the porticoes were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle. ^{Verse 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; ^{Verse 20} and behold a gate looking northward belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth; ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 28} And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures; ^{Verse 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, ^{Verse 31} from the porch to the outer court: and there were palm trees to the post thereof, and eight steps. ^{Verse 32} And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures: ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 35} And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures; ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 38} Its chambers and its doorways, and its porches at the second gate served as a drain, ^{Verse 39} that they might slay in it the sin offerings, and the trespass offerings. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 45} And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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. ^{Verse 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.