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 brings me forth to the outer court, the way northward, and he brings me into the chamber that [is] opposite the separate place, and that [is] opposite the building at the north.

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

At the front of the length [is] one hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth—fifty cubits.

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 twenty [cubits] that are of the inner court, and opposite the pavement that [is] of the outer court, [is] gallery [with] face toward gallery, in the three [stories].

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 at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth to the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the 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 upper chambers [are] short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;

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 [are] threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it has been kept back—more than the lower and than the middle one—from the ground.

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

As for the wall that [is] at the outside, alongside the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length [is] fifty cubits;

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

for the length of the chambers that [are] in the outer court [is] fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple—one 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 chambers [is] the entrance from the east, in one’s going into them from the outer court.

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

In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, to the front of the separate place, and to the front of the building, [are] chambers.

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 the way before them [is] as the appearance of the chambers that [are] northward, according to their length so [is] their breadth, and all their outlets, and according to their fashions, and according to their openings.

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 according to the openings of the chambers that [are] southward [is] an opening at the head of the way, the way directly in the front of the wall eastward in entering them.

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 says to me, “The north chambers, the south chambers, that [are] at the front of the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests (who [are] near to YHWH) eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, 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.”

In the priests’ going in, they do not come out from the sanctuary to the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they [are] holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near to that which [is] for 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 he has finished the measurements of the inner house, and has brought me forth the way of the gate whose front [is] eastward, and he has measured it all around.

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

He has measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed all around.

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

He has measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

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

The south side he has measured, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.

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

He has turned around to the west side, he has measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.

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.

At the four sides he has measured it; it had a wall all around, the length—five hundred, and the breadth—five hundred, to separate between the holy and the profane place.