40:5 我見殿四圍有牆。那人手拿量度的竿，長六肘，每肘是一肘零一掌。他用竿量牆，厚一竿，高一竿。
40:6 他到了朝東的門，就上門的臺階，量門的這檻，寬一竿；又量門的那檻，寬一竿。
40:7 又有衛房，每房長一竿，寬一竿，相隔五肘。門檻，就是挨著向殿的廊門檻，寬一竿。
40:8 他又量向殿門的廊子，寬一竿。
40:9 又量門廊，寬八肘，牆柱厚二肘；那門的廊子向著殿。
40:10 東門洞有衛房：這旁三間，那旁三間，都是一樣的尺寸；這邊的柱子和那邊的柱子，也是一樣的尺寸。
40:11 他量門口，寬十肘，長十三肘。
40:12 衛房前展出的境界：這邊一肘，那邊一肘；衛房這邊六肘，那邊六肘。
40:13 又量門洞，從這衛房頂的後檐到那衛房頂的後檐，寬二十五肘；衛房門與門相對。
40:14 又量（原文是造）廊子六十肘（七十士譯本是二十肘），牆柱外是院子，有廊為界，在門洞兩邊。
40:15 從大門口到內廊前，共五十肘。
40:16 衛房和門洞兩旁柱間並廊子，都有嚴緊的窗櫺；裡邊都有窗櫺，柱上有雕刻的棕樹。
5 And behold, there was a wall all around
the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the
man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length.
So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6
Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the
threshold of the gate, one reed deep. 7 And the side rooms, one reed long and
one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold
of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed. 8 Then he
measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed. 9 Then he
measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits;
and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. 10 And there were three
side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size,
and the jambs on either side were of the same size. 11 Then he measured the
width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway,
thirteen cubits. 12 There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on
either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side. 13 Then he
measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the
other, a breadth of twenty- five cubits; the openings faced each other. 14 He
measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits. And around the vestibule of the
gateway was the court. 15 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the
front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. 16 And the gateway
had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward
their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on
the jambs were palm trees.
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這裡描寫聖殿東邊的大門與外牆的結構，由這些描述可以看見聖殿的建築的規模及其整齊的排列。
這也告訴我們在教會的治理上，我們也必須要有清楚與明確的方向，使教會可以建造，也讓弟兄姊妹可以配搭一同來服侍。
也因此牧者的講道時要為弟兄姊妹畫一張明確教會的藍圖，讓我們與基督一同來建造地上的天國，使上帝的國實現在上帝所建立的新天新地上！這是教會要努力的方向。
