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He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze,(A) with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.(B) He was standing by the city gate. He spoke to me: ‘Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears,(C) and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.’(D)

The Wall and Outer Gates

Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple.(E) The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of 53 centimetres;[a] each unit was the standard length plus 8 centimetres.[b] He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was 3.2 metres,[c] and its height was the same.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:5 = a long cubit
  2. 40:5 Lit six cubits by the cubit and a handbreadth
  3. 40:5 Lit was one rod, also in v. 7