“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he answered, “to see how long and how wide it is.”
And the boundary line will continue from there on the west to the hill of Gareb and then around to Goah.
He took me closer, and I saw a man who shone like bronze. He was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring rod and was standing by a gateway.
Next to the holy area, another section, 10 miles long and 2 miles wide, is to be set aside for a city where any of the people of Israel may live.
So I have come back to Jerusalem to show mercy to the city. My Temple will be restored, and the city will be rebuilt.”
I asked the angel, “Where are they taking it?”
But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going.
I was then given a stick that looked like a measuring-rod, and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who are worshiping in the temple.