6 Then he came to the gate, the front of which is toward the east,+ and went up by its steps. And he began to measure the threshold of the gate,+ one reed in width, and the other threshold, one reed in width.

2 Then Jehovah said to me: “As regards this gate, shut is how it will continue. It will not be opened, and no mere man* will come in by it; for Jehovah himself, the God* of Israel,+ has come in by it, and it must continue shut.