1 No vigésimo quinto ano do exílio, no início do ano, no décimo dia do mês, no décimo quarto ano depois da queda da cidade, naquele exato dia a mão do Senhor esteve sobre mim e ele me levou para lá.2 Em visões de Deus ele me levou a Israel e me pôs num monte muito alto, em cujo lado sul estavam alguns prédios que tinham a aparência de uma cidade.3 Ele me levou para lá, e eu vi um homem que parecia de bronze; ele estava de pé junto à entrada, com uma corda de linho e uma vara de medir na mão.4 E ele me disse: "Filho do homem, fixe bem os olhos e procure ouvir bem, e preste atenção a tudo o que vou lhe mostrar, pois por isso você foi trazido aqui. Conte à nação de Israel tudo o que você vai ver".5 Vi um muro que cercava completamente a área do templo. O comprimento da vara de medir na mão do homem era de seis medidas longas, cada uma com meio metro. Ele mediu o muro, que tinha três metros de espessura e três de altura.6 Depois ele foi até a porta que dá para o oriente. Subiu os seus degraus e mediu a soleira da porta, que tinha três metros de fundo.7 As salas dos guardas tinham três metros de comprimento e três metros de largura, e as paredes entre elas tinham dois metros e meio de espessura. E a soleira da porta junto ao pórtico, defronte ao templo, tinha três metros de fundo.8 Depois ele mediu o pórtico,9 que tinha quatro metros de fundo e seus batentes tinham um metro de espessura. O pórtico estava voltado para o templo.10 Da porta oriental para dentro havia três salas de cada lado; as três tinham as mesmas medidas, e as faces das paredes salientes de cada lado tinham as mesmas medidas.11 A seguir ele mediu a largura da porta, à entrada; era de cinco metros, e seu comprimento era de seis metros e meio.12 Defronte de cada sala havia um muro de meio metro de altura, e os nichos eram quadrados, com três metros em cada lado.13 Depois ele mediu a entrada a partir do alto da parte de trás do muro de uma sala até o alto da sala oposta; a distância era de doze metros e meio, da abertura de um parapeito até a abertura do parapeito oposto.14 E mediu ao longo das faces das paredes salientes por todo o interior da entrada; eram trinta metros. A medida era até ao pórtico que dá para o pátio.15 A distância desde a entrada da porta até a extremidade do seu pórtico era de vinte e cinco metros.16 As salas e os muros salientes dentro da entrada eram guarnecidos de estreitas aberturas com parapeito ao redor, como o pórtico; as aberturas que os circundavam davam para o interior. As faces dos muros salientes eram decoradas com tamareiras.17 Depois ele me levou ao pátio externo. Ali eu vi alguns quartos e um piso que havia sido construído ao redor de todo o pátio; ali havia trinta quartos ao longo de todo o piso.18 Era adjacente às laterais das entradas e sua largura era igual ao comprimento; esse era o piso inferior.19 A seguir ele mediu a distância do interior da entrada inferior até o exterior do pátio interno, o que deu cinqüenta metros, tanto no lado leste como no lado norte.20 Mediu depois o comprimento e a largura da porta que dá para o norte, que dá para o pátio externo.21 Seus compartimentos, três de cada lado, suas paredes salientes e seu pórtico tinham as mesmas medidas dos da primeira entrada. Tinham vinte e cinco metros de comprimento e doze metros e meio de largura.22 Suas aberturas, seu pórtico e sua decoração com tamareiras tinham as mesmas medidas dos da porta que dava para o oriente. Sete degraus subiam até ela, e o seu pórtico ficava no lado oposto a eles.23 Havia uma porta que abria o pátio interno e que dava para a porta norte, como também uma que dava para a porta leste. Ele mediu de uma porta à porta oposta; eram cinqüenta metros.24 Depois ele me levou para o lado sul, e eu vi uma porta que dava para o sul. Ele mediu seus batentes e seu pórtico, e eles tinham as mesmas medidas das outras portas.25 A entrada e o pórtico tinham aberturas estreitas ao seu redor, como as aberturas das outras. Tinham vinte e cinco metros de comprimento e doze metros e meio de largura.26 Sete degraus subiam até ela, e o seu pórtico ficava no lado oposto a eles; havia uma decoração de tamareiras nas faces dos muros salientes em cada lado.27 O pátio interior também tinha uma porta que dava para o sul, e ele mediu desde essa porta até a porta externa no lado sul; eram cinqüenta metros.28 A seguir ele me levou ao pátio interno pela porta sul, e mediu a porta sul; e ela tinha as mesmas medidas das outras.29 Suas salas, seus muros salientes e seu pórtico tinham as mesmas medidas dos outros. A entrada e seu pórtico tinha aberturas ao seu redor. Tinham vinte e cinco metros de comprimento e doze metros e meio de largura.30 ( Os pórticos das entradas ao redor do pátio interior tinham doze metros e meio de largura e dois metros e meio de fundo. )31 Seu pórtico dava para o pátio externo; tamareiras decoravam seus batentes, e oito degraus subiam até ele.32 Depois ele me levou ao pátio interno no lado leste, e mediu a entrada; e ela tinha as mesmas medidas das outras.33 Suas salas, suas paredes salientes e seu pórtico tinham as mesmas medidas dos outros. A entrada e seu pórtico tinha aberturas ao seu redor. Tinham vinte e cinco metros de comprimento e doze metros e meio de largura.34 Seu pórtico dava para o pátio externo; tamareiras decoravam os batentes em cada lado, e oito degraus subiam até ela.35 Depois ele me levou à porta norte e a mediu; e ela tinha as mesmas medidas das outras,36 como também as suas salas, as suas paredes salientes e o seu pórtico, e tinha aberturas ao seu redor. Tinha vinte e cinco metros de comprimento e doze metros e meio de largura.37 Seu pórtico dava para o pátio externo; tamareiras decoravam os batentes em ambos os lados, e oito degraus subiam até ela.38 Um quarto com sua entrada ficava junto do pórtico de cada uma das entradas internas, onde os holocaustos eram lavados.39 No pórtico da entrada havia duas mesas de cada lado, em que os holocaustos, as ofertas pelo pecado e as ofertas pela culpa eram abatidos.40 Junto à parede externa do pórtico da entrada, perto dos degraus da porta norte, ficavam duas mesas, e do outro lado dos degraus havia duas mesas.41 Havia, pois, quatro mesas num lado da entrada e quatro no outro, onde os sacrifícios eram abatidos. Eram oito mesas ao todo.42 Também havia quatro mesas de pedra lavrada para os holocaustos, cada uma com setenta e cinco centímetros de comprimento e de largura, e cinqüenta centímetros de altura. Nelas eram colocados os utensílios para o abate dos holocaustos e dos outros sacrifícios.43 E ganchos de duas pontas, cada um com quatro dedos de comprimento, estavam presos à parede, em toda a sua extensão. As mesas eram para a carne das ofertas.44 Fora da porta interna, dentro do pátio interno, havia dois quartos, um ao lado da porta norte que dava para o sul, e outro ao lado da porta sul que dava para o norte.45 Ele me disse: "O quarto que dá para o sul é para os sacerdotes encarregados do templo,46 e o quarto que dá para o norte é para os sacerdotes encarregados do altar. São eles os filhos de Zadoque, os únicos levitas que podem aproximar-se do Senhor para ministrarem diante dele".47 Depois ele mediu o pátio: Era quadrado e tinha cinqüenta metros de comprimento e cinqüenta de largura. E o altar ficava em frente do templo.48 A seguir me levou ao pórtico do templo e mediu os batentes do pórtico; eles tinham dois metros e meio de largura em ambos os lados. A largura da entrada era de sete metros, e suas paredes salientes tinham um metro e meio de largura em cada lado.49 O pórtico tinha dez metros de largura e seis metros da frente aos fundos. O acesso a ele era por um lance de escadas, e havia três colunas em cada lado dos batentes.

1 It was the tenth day of the month in the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of our captivity and fourteen years after Jerusalem was captured. At that time Jehovah’s power came over me, and he brought me to Jerusalem.2 In visions, God brought me to Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. On the south side of the mountain were buildings that looked like those in a city.3 He brought me closer. I saw a man who looked like he was covered with bronze. The man was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring stick, and he stood in a gateway.4 He said to me: »Son of man, look with your eyes, and listen with your ears. Pay close attention to everything I am going to show you. The reason you were brought here is to see these things. Tell the nation of Israel about everything that you see.«5 I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple. The man had a measuring stick that was ten and one half feet long. He measured the wall. It was ten and one half feet thick and ten and one half feet high.6 The man went to the gateway that faced east. He went up its steps and measured the entrance to the gateway. It was ten and one half feet wide.7 There were also guardrooms. Each guardroom was ten and one half feet long and ten and one half feet wide. The space between the guardrooms was nine feet thick. And the entrance to the gateway by the entrance hall of the temple was ten and one half feet wide.8 He also measured the entrance hall of the gateway.9 It extended fourteen feet from the Temple. Its recessed walls were three and one half feet thick. The gateway's entrance hall faced the Temple.10 There were three guardrooms on each side of the eastern gateway. All three rooms on each side were the same size, and the recessed walls on each side were the same size.11 The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway. It was seventeen and one half feet wide, and the gateway was twenty-three feet long.12 There was a barrier about twenty-one inches in front of each guardroom. The guardrooms were ten and one half feet square.13 He measured the gateway from the top of one guardroom to the top of the opposite guardroom. It was forty-four feet wide from one door to the opposite door.14 He also measured the entrance hall. It was thirty-five feet wide. In front of the entrance hall to the gateway was a courtyard on all sides.15 The total length of the gateway from the front of the outer part to the front of the inner part of the entrance hall was eighty-seven and one half feet.16 The guardrooms and recessed walls inside the gateway had small windows all around. The entrance hall also had windows all around on the inside. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls.17 Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. I saw rooms there and pavement all around the courtyard. There were thirty rooms along the edge of the pavement.18 The pavement in the lower courtyard ran alongside the gateways. It was as wide as it was long.19 The man measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner courtyard. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet from the east and to the north.20 The man measured the length and width of the gateway, leading to the outer courtyard. This was the gateway that faced north.21 Its three guardrooms, its recessed walls, and its entrance hall were the same size as those in the east gateway. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide.22 Its windows, recessed walls, and palm tree pictures were the same size as those in the east gateway. Seven steps went up to it and led to its entrance hall.23 The inner courtyard had a gateway opposite the north gate just like the east gateway. The man measured the distance from one gate to the other gate. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet.24 The man led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway that faced south. He measured its recessed walls and its entrance hall. They were the same size as those of the other gateways.25 The gateway and its entrance hall had windows on all sides like the windows in the other gateways. It was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide.26 Seven steps went up to it and led to its entrance hall. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, one picture on each side.27 The inner courtyard had a gateway facing south. The man measured the distance from the gateway on the south side to its opposite gateway. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet.28 The man brought me to the inner courtyard through the south gateway. He measured the south gateway. It was the same size as the others.29 Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance hall were the same size as the other gateways. The guardrooms and the entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide.30 There were entrance halls all around the inner courtyard. They were all forty-four feet long and nine feet wide.31 The entrance halls faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to each gateway.32 The man brought me to the east side of the inner courtyard. He measured the gateway. It was the same size as the others.33 Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance halls were the same size as those of the other gateways. Its guardrooms and entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide.34 Its entrance hall faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to the gateway.35 Then the man brought me to the north gateway. He measured it. It was the same size as the others.36 Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide.37 Its recessed walls faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to the gateway.38 There was a room with a door that opened toward the entrance hall of the gateway. This is the room where the priests washed the animals for the burnt offerings.39 There were two tables on each side of the entrance hall of the gateway. On these tables the animals were slaughtered for burnt offerings, offerings for sin, and guilt offerings.40 On each side of the entrance to the north gateway there were two tables, and on the other side of the entrance hall of the gateway there were two tables.41 So there were four tables on each side of the gateway, eight tables in all, on which they slaughtered animals.42 There were four tables made of cut stone for burnt offerings. They were three feet long, three feet wide, and twenty-one inches high. On these tables the priests laid the utensils that were used to slaughter animals for burnt offerings and sacrifices.43 Double-pronged hooks, three inches long, were attached to the wall all around the room, and the tables were for the meat of the animals.44 Outside the gateways to the inner courtyard were the rooms for the singers in the inner courtyards. One room was at the side of the north gateway. It faced south. The other room was at the side of the south gateway. It faced north.45 The man said to me: »This room that faces south is for the priests who serve in the temple.46 The room that faces north is for the priests who serve at the altar. These priests are Zadok's descendants. They are the only Levites who are able to come near Jehovah and serve him.«47 The man measured the courtyard. It was a perfect square: one hundred and seventy-five feet long and one hundred and seventy-five feet wide. The altar was in front of the Temple.48 The man brought me to the entrance hall of the Temple and measured its recessed walls. They were nine feet on each side. The gateway was twenty-four and one half feet wide, and the walls on each side were five feet wide.49 The entrance hall was thirty-five feet long and twenty-one feet wide. Steps led up to it. Pillars stood by the recessed walls, one on each side of the entrance hall.