Ezekiel 41

1 Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

Afterwards he brought me to the temple; and he measured the projecting wall-pillars, six cubits broad on this side, and six cubits broad on that side, according to the breadth of the house.

2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on this side; and five cubits on that side. Then he measured the length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.

And he went inward, and measured the border of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

4 Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

Then he measured twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth in the temple, and said to me, This is the most holy place.

5 Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits round about, round about the house:

6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

And the side-chambers were chamber to chamber, three and thirty times; and they entered into the wall of the house of the side-chambers round about, and were connected with it; but they were not connected with the wall of the house.

7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

And, the side-chambers became wider upward, having a winding ascent. For the circuit of the house went still upward, round about the house; therefore the greater breadth of the house was upward; and so they ascended from the lowest story to the highest through the middle story.

8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.

I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed, six cubits to the knuckles.

9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

The thickness of the wall of the side-chambers outward was five cubits, and the space which was left was the place of the side-chambers of the house.

10 and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

And between the rooms was the breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

11 The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.

And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the space that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the space that was left was five cubits round about.

12 Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

And the building which was before the separate place, at the side toward the west, was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof was ninety cubits.

13 Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

Then he measured the length of the house, a hundred cubits; and the length of the separate place and the building and the walls thereof, a hundred cubits.

14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.

Also the breadth towards the front of the house and of the separate place toward the east was a hundred cubits.

15 Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,

And he measured the length of the building before the separate place, and that which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on this side and on that side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

16 as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.

the thresholds, and the windows that were closed, and the galleries round about the three sides. Over against the threshold was a table of wood round about, from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered with it;

17 In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,

upon the space above every door, and upon the inner house, and without, and upon all the wall round about within and without, according to measure.

18 were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:

And cherubs and palm-trees were made, one palm-tree between two cherubs, and every cherub had two faces;

19 the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

and the face of a man was toward a palm-tree on one side, and the face of a lion toward a palm-tree on the other side. So was it made upon all the house round about.

20 Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance.

From the ground to above the door were cherubs and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

21 The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.

The posts of the temple were four-square; and the front of the sanctuary had the same appearance.

22 There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and two cubits long; and the corners thereof and the base thereof and the walls thereof were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that standeth before Jehovah.

23 Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

And the two doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for one door, and two leaves for the other door.

25 Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.

And there were made on them, even on the doors of the temple, cherubs and palm-trees, such as were made upon the walls, and a wooden threshold was before the porch without.

26 There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.

And at the closed windows were palm-trees on this side, and on that side, on the sides of the porch, and on the side-chambers of the house, and on the thresholds.