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.

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 On the north side it 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 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 in the inner court, and over against the pavement in the outer court, was gallery before gallery, in three rows.

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 chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors 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 rooms were narrower (for the galleries took away room from them) than the lower and middle chambers 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 they were narrower than the lowest, and than the middlemost 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 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 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 rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; but 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 rooms was an entry from the east, as one came to 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 east, before the separate place and before the building, were rooms.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 himself also 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.

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.