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.

Then he led me forth to the outer court, in the direction toward the north, and he brought me to the rooms which were before the separate place, and before the building toward the north.

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

The length was a hundred cubits before the gate toward the north, and the breadth was 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.

over against the twenty cubits in the inner court, and over against the pavement in the outer court, was gallery before gallery, in three rows.

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 before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward 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 rooms were narrower (for the galleries took away room from them) than the lower and middle chambers 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 were in three stories; but had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts; therefore they were narrower than the lowest, and than the middlemost 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.

And as to the wall that was without, over against the chambers, toward the outer court, before the chambers, the length thereof was 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 rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; but before the temple it was 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 an entry from the east, as one came to 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 toward the east, before the separate place and before the building, 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 way before them similar to that before the rooms toward the north. Both their length and their breadth were the same, and all their goings out and their fashions and their doors were the same.

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 so also were the doors of the rooms toward the south; there was a door at the head of the way, before the well-built wall in the way toward the east, as one entered into 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.

Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are holy rooms, where the priests, when they come near to Jehovah, eat the most holy things. There shall they lay the most holy things, both the flour-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-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.”

When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but shall leave there the garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and approach to the place which belongeth to 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:

Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth to the gate, whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

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

He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed round about.

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

He measured the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed round about.

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

He measured the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.

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

He turned himself also to the west side, and 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.

On all the four sides measured he the wall round about five hundred reeds in length, and five hundred in breadth, to make a separation between the holy and the unholy place.