< Ezekiel 42 >
1 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.
And he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the cells that were over against the separate place and which were over against the building, toward the north,
2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,
before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
3 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.
over against the twenty [cubits] that pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement that pertained to the outer court; there was gallery against gallery in the third [story];
4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.
and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.
5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.
And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
6 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.
For they were in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore [the third story] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.
7 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.
And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:
8 For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.
for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.
9 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.
And under these cells was the entry from the east, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.
In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;
11 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.
and a passage before them, like the appearance of the cells that were toward the north, according to their length, according to their breadth and all their goings out, and according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
12 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.
And according to the doors of the cells that were toward the south there was a door at the head of the way, the way directly before the corresponding wall toward the east as one entereth into them.
13 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.
And he said unto me, The north cells [and] the south cells, which are before the separate place, they are holy cells, where the priests that come near unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, both the oblation and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering: for the place is holy.
14 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.
When the priests enter in, they shall not go forth from the sanctuary into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which is for the people.
15 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.
And when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose front was toward the east, and measured [the enclosure] round about.
16 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.
He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
17 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.
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
18 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.
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.
19 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.
He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.
20 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.
He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall round about, five hundred long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.