A reading from the book of Ezekiel.

In the 25th year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the 10th day of the month,

in the 14th year, after the city was struck down, on that very day the hand of the Lord was upon me,

and he brought me to the city. In visions of God, he brought me to the land of Israel,

and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the city. In visions of God, he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high

mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south. When he brought me there, behold,

there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his

hand, and he was standing in the gateway, and the man said to me, son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the House of Israel. And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand with six long

cubits, each being a cubit and a hand-breadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall,

one read, and the height, one read. Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps,

and measured the threshold of the gate, one read deep, and the side rooms one read long and one read

broad, and the space between the side rooms, five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the

vestibule of the gate, at the inner end, one read. Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway,

on the inside, one read. Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits, and its

jams, two cubits, and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end, and there was three

side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size, and the jams

on either side were of the same size. Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway,

ten cubits, and the length of the gateway, 13 cubits.

There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side, and the side rooms were six cubits on either side.

Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breath of 25 cubits.

The openings faced each other. He measured also

the vestibule, 60 cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court. From the front of the gate,

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