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 bringeth me forth unto the outer court, the way northward, and he bringeth me in unto the chamber that [is] over-against the separate place, and that [is] over-against the building at the north.

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

At the front of the length [is] a hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth 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 are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that [is] to the outer court, [is] gallery over-against gallery, in the three [storeys].

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 at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at 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 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 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 [are] threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back — more than the lower and than the middle one — 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.

As to the wall that [is] at the outside, over-against the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length [is] 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 chambers that [are] to the outer court [is] fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple 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 chambers [is] the entrance from the east, in one's going 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 eastward, unto the front of the separate place, and unto the front of the building, [are] chambers.

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 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 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 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 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 saith unto 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 Jehovah) 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 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.

In the priests' going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto 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 unto 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 he hath finished the measurements of the inner house, and hath brought me forth the way of the gate whose front [is] eastward, and he hath measured it all 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 hath 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 hath 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.

The south side he hath measured, 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 hath turned round unto the west side, he hath 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.

At the four sides he hath measured it, a wall [is] to it all round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy and the profane place.