By the four sides he measured it. It had a wall round about and round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred wide, to separate between the holy and the common.
My Beloved is likened to a gazelle, or to a young deer, the stag. Behold, He stands behind our wall, peering from the windows, sparkling from the lattice.
Violence shall not still be heard in your land, or wasting and ruin within your bor- ders; but you shall call your walls, Salvation, and your gates, Praise.
Her priests have violated My Law and have profaned My holy things. They have not separated between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and clean they have not taught. And they have hidden their eyes from the sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about. And a measuring reed was in the man’s hand, six cubits, with a cubit and a span. And he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain is all its border, round about and round about, being most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
And the five thousand being left in the width in front of the twenty-five thousand, it is common for the city, for dwelling and for open land. And the city shall be in its midst.
All the heave offering shall be twentyfive thousand by twenty-five thousand cubits, foursquare. You shall offer the holy heave offering to the possession of the city.
And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those desiring to pass from here to you are not able, nor can they pass from there to us.
Because of this, “come out from among them” “and be separated,” says the Lord, “and do not touch the unclean thing,” and I will receive you. Isa. 52:11