Ezekiel 40:1-4
Visions of the House of Yahweh
40In the atwenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the bcity was struck down, on that same day the chand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me there. 2In the avisions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and caused me to rest on a very bhigh mountain, and on it cto the south there was a dstructure like a city. 3So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of abronze, with a bline of flax and a cmeasuring 1rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway. 4And the man spoke to me, “aSon of man, bsee with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. cDeclare to the house of Israel all that you are seeing.”