[476] _And behold a wall on the outside of the House round about_, at the distance of fifty cubits from it, aabb: _and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long by the cubit, and an hand-breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, _or wall_, one reed, and the height one reed. _[477]_ Then came he unto the gate _of the House_, which looketh towards the east, and went up the seven steps thereof, _AB_, and measured the threshold of the gate, _CD_, which was one reed broad, and the _Porters_ little chamber, _EFG_, one reed long, and one reed broad; and the arched passage between the little chambers, _FH_, five cubits: and the second little chamber, _HIK_, a reed broad and a reed long; and the arched passage, _IL_, five cubits: and the third little chamber _LMN_, a reed long and a reed broad: and the threshold of the gate next the porch of the gate within, _OP_, one reed: and he measured the porch of the gate, _QR_, eight cubits; and the posts thereof _ST_, _st_, two cubits; and the porch of the gate, _QR_, was inward, _or toward the inward court_; and the little chambers, _EF_, _HI_, _LM_, _ef_, _hi_, _lm_, were _outward, or_ to the east; three on this side, and three on that side _of the gate_. There was one measure of the three, and one measure of the posts on this side, and on that side; and he measured the breadth of the door of the gate, _Cc_, or _Dd_, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gate _within between the little chambers, Ee or Ff_, thirteen cubits; and the limit, or margin, or step before the little chambers, _EM_, one cubit on this side, and the step, _em_, one cubit on the other side; and the little chambers, _EFG_, _HIK_, _LMN_, _efg_, _hik_, _lmn_, were six cubits _broad_ on this side, and six cubits _broad_ on that side: and he measured _the whole breadth of_ the gate, from the _further_ wall of one little chamber to the _further_ wall of another little chamber: the breadth, _Gg, or Kk, or Nn_, was twenty and five cubits _through_; door, _FH_, against door, _fh_: and he measured the posts, _EF_, _HI_, and _LM_, _ef_, _hi_, and _lm_, twenty cubits _high_; and at the posts there were gates, _or arched passages, FH, IL, fh, il_, round about; and from the _eastern_ face of the gate at the entrance, _Cc_, to the _western_ face of the porch of the gate within, _Tt_, were fifty cubits: and there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to the porch within the gate, round about, and likewise to the posts; even windows were round about within: and upon each post were palm trees._