Ezekiel 42

1 Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.

And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

2 The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

3 Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.

Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

4 In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

5 Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

6 For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

7 An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.

And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.

For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

9 And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

11 with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.

And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

12 And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.

And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

13 Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.

And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.

14 Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”

When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

15 Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:

And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

16 With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

17 He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.

And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

18 He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.

And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

19 And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

20 So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.