Ezekiel 42

1 And he led me into the outer court by the way that leads to the north, and he led me into the storeroom that was opposite the separate edifice, and opposite the shrine that verges toward the north.

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.

2 The length of the face of the north gate was one hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits.

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

3 Opposite the twenty cubits of the interior court, and opposite the layer of pavement stones in the outer court, in that place, there was a portico joined to a triple portico.

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.

4 And before the storerooms, there was a walkway of ten cubits in width, looking toward the interior along a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.

And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

5 In that place, there were storerooms in the upper part of the lower level. For they supported the porticos, which projected from them out of the lower level, and out of the middle of the building.

And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

6 For they were of three levels, and they did not have pillars, as they were like the pillars of the courts. Because of this, they projected from the lower levels and from the middle, fifty cubits from the ground.

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.

7 And the exterior enclosing wall, adjacent to the storerooms that were along the way of the exterior court in front of the storerooms, was fifty cubits long.

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.

8 For the length of the storerooms of the exterior court was fifty cubits, and the length before the face of the temple was one hundred cubits.

For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

9 And under these storerooms, there was an entrance from the east, for those who were entering into it from the outer court.

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.

10 In the width of the enclosing wall of the court that was opposite the way of the east, at the face of the separate edifice, there were also storerooms, before the edifice.

(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

11 And the way before their face was in accord with the form of the storerooms which were along the way of the north. As was their length, so also was their width. And the entire entrance, and the likenesses, and their doors

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.

12 were in accord with the doors of the storerooms that were on the way looking toward the Renown. There was a door at the head of the way, and the way was before a separate vestibule, along the way entering toward the east.

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.

13 And he said to me: “The storerooms of the north, and the storerooms of the south, which are before the separate edifice, these are holy storerooms, in which the priests, who draw near to the Lord in the Holy of Holies, shall eat. There they shall station the Holy of Holies, and the offering for sin, and for trespasses. For it is a holy place.

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.

14 And when the priests will have entered, they shall not depart from the holy places into the outer court. And in that place, they shall set their vestments, in which they minister, for they are holy. And they shall be clothed with other vestments, and in this manner they shall go forth to the people.”

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.

15 And when he had completed measuring the inner house, he led me out along the way of the gate that looked toward the way of the east. And he measured it on every side all around.

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.

16 Then he measured facing the east wind with the measuring reed: five hundred reeds with the measuring reed throughout the course.

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.

17 And he measured facing the wind of the north: five hundred reeds with the measuring reed throughout the course.

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.

18 And toward the south wind, he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed throughout the course.

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.

19 And toward the west wind, he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

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.

20 By the four winds, he measured its wall, on every side throughout the course: five hundred cubits in length and five hundred cubits in width, dividing between the sanctuary and the place of the common people.

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.