1 No ano vinte e cinco da nossa deportação, no começo do ano, no décimo mês, catorze anos após a queda da cidade, naquele mesmo dia, a mão do Senhor veio sobre mim. Deus me transportou,
2 no curso das visões divinas, à terra de Israel. Ele me colocou nos cimos de uma montanha muito elevada, sobre a qual pareciam elevar-se, do lado do meio-dia, as construções de uma cidade.
3 Conduzido ao lugar, divisei um homem que parecia ser de bronze, levando nas mãos uma corda de linho e uma cana de agrimensor. Ele permanecia de pé à porta.
4 Esse homem dirigiu-me as seguintes palavras: Filho do homem, volta os teus olhos, escuta com teus ouvidos, e presta bem atenção a tudo quanto te vou mostrar, porque é para esse espetáculo que foste transportado até aqui. Darás conhecimento aos israelitas de tudo o que te vou mostrar.
5 Um muro exterior formava o recinto do templo. O homem tinha na mão uma cana de agrimensor, de seis côvados {cada côvado tendo um palmo a mais que o côvado corrente}. Ele mediu a largura da construção - uma cana - e a altura - também uma cana.
6 Voltou em seguida ao pórtico oriental; subiu os degraus e mediu a soleira da porta, que tinha uma cana de profundidade.
7 Cada câmara tinha uma cana de comprimento e uma cana de largura: entre cada câmara havia cinco côvados. A soleira do pórtico do lado do vestíbulo, para o interior, media uma cana.
8 Ele mediu o vestíbulo do pórtico, para o interior.
9 Ele tinha oito côvados, e suas pilastras, dois côvados. Esse vestíbulo do pórtico estava situado no interior.
10 As câmaras do pórtico oriental eram em número de três de cada lado: Tinham todas as três as mesmas dimensões, do mesmo modo que as pilastras.
11 Ele mediu a largura do vão da porta: dez côvados; a extensão do pórtico era de treze côvados.
12 Diante dos cômodos havia uma barreira de um côvado de cada lado. A própria câmara media seis côvados em cada direção.
13 Mediu o pórtico, desde o teto de uma câmara até o teto de outra: vinte e cinco côvados de largura, de porta a porta.
14 Depois contou sessenta côvados para as pilastras, perto das quais se encontrava a átrio que rodeava o pórtico.
15 O espaço entre a porta de entrada e o vestíbulo da porta interior era de cinqüenta côvados.
16 Havia nas câmaras e nas pilastras janelas gradeadas para o interior do pórtico; havia o mesmo nos vestíbulos: janelas se encontravam em toda a volta, dando para o interior. Sobre as pilastras, havia palmeiras.
17 Em seguida ele me fez entrar no átrio exterior onde vi câmaras, e um lajeamento disposto em redor do átrio: sobre esse lajeamento havia trinta câmaras.
18 O lajeamento se estendia de cada lado dos pórticos, numa extensão igual à extensão desse pórtico: era o pavimento interior.
19 Ele mediu a largura desde a frente do pórtico interior até diante do ártrio interior: cem côvados ao leste e ao norte.
20 Quanto ao pórtico setentrional do ártrio exterior, mediu a extensão e a largura.
21 Os aposentos eram em número de três de cada lado; suas pilastras e seus vestíbulos tinham as mesmas dimensões que as do primeiro pórtico: cinqüenta côvados de extensão por vinte e cinco de largura.
22 Suas janelas, seu vestíbulo e suas palmeiras tinham as mesmas dimensões que as do pórtico oriental. Chegava-se aí por sete degraus, em frente dos quais ficava o seu vestíbulo.
23 Diante do pórtico norte, como diante do pórtico oriental, havia uma porta com saída para o átrio interior. De um pórtico a outro contou cem côvados.
24 Ele me conduziu até o lado do meio-dia, onde vi o pórtico meridional. As pilastras e o vestíbulo, que mediu, tinham idêntica dimensão.
25 Esse pórtico tinha, em todo o seu âmbito, assim como seu vestíbulo, janelas semelhantes às outras. Havia cinqüenta côvados de extensão por vinte e cinco de largura.
26 Chegava-se aí por sete degraus, em frente dos quais ficava o vestíbulo. De uma e outra parte havia palmeiras em suas pilastras.
27 O átrio interior tinha também um pórtico meridional. De um pórtico a outro, para o meio-dia, contou cem côvados.
28 Ele me fez entrar no átrio interior pelo pórtico meridional, o qual tinha as mesmas dimensões.
29 Suas câmaras, pilastras e vestíbulo tinham as mesmas dimensões. Esse pórtico, assim como o seu vestíbulo, estavam guarnecidos de janelas em toda a volta. Suas dimensões eram: cinqüenta côvados de extensão por vinte e cinco de largura.
30 Em toda a volta havia vestíbulos de vinte e cinco côvados de comprimento por cinco de largura.
31 Seu vestíbulo se encontrava do lado do átrio exterior. Suas pilastras eram ornadas de palmeiras; subia-se até aí por uma escada de oito degraus.
32 Depois conduziu-me ao pórtico oriental do átrio interior, que ele mediu, e no qual encontrou as mesmas dimensões.
33 Tinham também as mesmas dimensões suas câmaras, pilastras e vestíbulo. O pórtico assim como seu vestíbulo, estavam guarnecidos de janelas em toda a sua extensão. Suas dimensões eram de cinqüenta côvados de comprimento por vinte e cinco de largura.
34 Seu vestíbulo dava para o átrio exterior. Havia, de uma e outra parte, palmeiras em suas pilastras, e uma escada de oito degraus.
35 Ele me conduziu então ao pórtico setentrional, que mediu, e no qual encontrou as mesmas dimensões,
36 do mesmo modo que em suas câmaras, pilastras e vestíbulo. Havia janelas em toda a volta. As dimensões eram de cinqüenta côvados de comprimento por vinte e cinco de largura.
37 Seu vestíbulo dava para o átrio exterior. Havia, de uma a outra parte, palmeiras em suas pilastras, e uma escada de oito degraus.
38 Havia uma sala, cuja porta se encontrava junto às pilastras dos pórticos; era lá que se lavavam os holocaustos.
39 No vestíbulo do pórtico encontravam-se, de uma e outra parte, duas mesas nas quais se degolavam as vítimas destinadas aos sacrifícios pelo pecado e pelo delito.
40 No exterior, do lado norte, para quem subia no pórtico, encontravam-se duas mesas, e duas outras mesas do lado do vestíbulo desse pórtico.
41 Assim, quatro mesas de cada lado do pórtico, o que perfaz oito mesas, nas quais se degolavam as vítimas.
42 Havia, além disso, para os holocaustos, quatro mesas de pedra de cantaria, do comprimento de um côvado e meio, e a largura de um côvado e meio e a altura de um côvado. Depositavam-se nelas os instrumentos que serviam para degolar as vítimas dos holocaustos e dos sacrifícios.
43 Havia bordas da largura de um palmo em todo o âmbito interior. Era sobre essas mesas que eram depositadas as carnes sacrificadas.
44 No átrio interior, fora do pórtico interior, ficavam os lugares dos cantores, um do lado do pórtico setentrional, olhando para o sul, outro do lado do pórtico oriental, olhando para o norte.
45 O homem disse-me: Esta câmara, que olha para o sul, é reservada aos sacerdotes que têm a guarda do templo;
46 e a que olha para o norte é destinada aos sacerdotes que fazem o serviço do altar. Estes são os descendentes de Sadoc, {únicos} descendentes de Levi que {podem} aproximar-se do Senhor para o servirem.
47 Mediu o átrio: era um quadrado de cem côvados de lado. O altar encontrava-se diante do edifício.
48 Ele conduziu-me então ao vestíbulo do templo, cujas pilastras mediu: cinco côvados de cada lado, enquanto a largura do pórtico era de três côvados de cada lado.
49 O vestíbulo tinha vinte côvados de comprimento por onze de largura; chegava-se aí por degraus. Junto às pilastras, de uma e outra parte, havia {duas} colunas.
1 In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.
2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.
3 He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.
4 And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.
5 And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.
6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.
7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.
8 And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,
9 Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.
10 And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.
11 And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;
12 And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.
13 And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.
14 And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.
15 And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.
16 And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.
17 Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.
18 And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.
19 Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,
20 And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.
21 And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
22 And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside.
23 And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.
24 And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.
25 And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
26 And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights.
27 And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.
28 Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;
29 And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures:
30 And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
31 The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.
32 And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;
33 And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
34 And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.
35 And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;
36 Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
37 Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.
38 And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.
39 And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death:
40 On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables.
41 There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings.
42 And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.
43 And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.
44 And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north.
45 And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house.
46 And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.
47 And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.
48 Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.
49 The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.