Ezekiel 40:5-16 - The Eastern Gate

⁵ All of a sudden, we were at the exterior wall that completely surrounded the Temple. The man whom I had observed held a measuring reed that was six cubits long as measured in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long. As he measured the thickness of the wall, he measured out one reed. Its height was also one reed. ⁶ Then he went over to the gate that faced toward the east, ascended its steps, and measured its thresholds. One threshold measured one reed and the other one measured one reed. ⁷ Each guardhouse measured one reed long and one reed wide, and the distance between each guardhouse was five cubits. The threshold of the gate near the vestibule facing away from the Temple entrance measured one reed. ⁸ Next, he measured the vestibule of the gate facing away from the Temple entrance at one reed. ⁹ He measured the vestibule of the gate inside at eight cubits and the doorjambs at two cubits. (The vestibule at the gate faced away from the Temple.)

¹⁰ Gate guardhouses stood facing east, numbering three on each side, each of them of equal size to the door jamb; that is, having the same measurement on each side. ¹¹ He measured the width of the gateway at ten cubits, and the length of the gate at thirteen cubits. ¹² The retaining wall in front of the guardhouses measured one cubit wide. It stood one cubit from the wall to the guardhouses, which were six cubits square. ¹³ He measured the gate from the roof of the guardhouses to the roof of another at 25 cubits from doorway to opposite doorway. ¹⁴ Then he measured the open air porch at 60 cubits from the doorjamb of the courtyard that encompassed the gate. ¹⁵ The distance from the front entrance gate to the vestibule of the inner gate measured 50 cubits. ¹⁶ Latticed windows faced the guardhouses, their side pillars within the gate all around, and also for the porches. Windows were placed all around inside, and the side pillars were engraved with palm trees.