Ezekiel 42

1 The man took me out through the north gate to the outer courtyard into the rooms on the far side of the Temple courtyard by the northern external wall.

Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building, toward the north,

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

even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,

3 It had three floors of open halls on both sides, one facing the twenty-cubit area of the inner courtyard and one facing the pavement of the outer courtyard.

over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories.

4 In front of the rooms was an inside walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors opened to 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 The upper rooms were smaller because of the space taken up by the open halls on the lower and middle levels of the building.

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

6 Since they didn't have pillars like the courtyards, the upper rooms were set farther back than the lower and middle levels.

For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground.

7 An external wall ran in front of the rooms for fifty cubits long parallel to the outer courtyard.

And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

8 The rooms on the outer courtyard extended for fifty cubits, but those that faced the Temple were a hundred cubits long.

For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.

9 Below these rooms was an entrance on the east side coming from the outer courtyard.

And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court.

10 Along the wall on the south side of the outer courtyard were rooms next to 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, there were chambers,

11 There was a walkway in front of them, just like the rooms on the north side. These rooms had the same length and width, the same doors, floor plan, and exits.

with a way before them; like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they, with all their goings out, and according to their fashions; and as their doors,

12 Similarly there was an entrance under the rooms on the south side of the building, coming from the east side.

so were also the doors of the chambers that were toward the south, there was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall, toward the way from the east, as one entereth into them.

13 The man told me, “The north and south rooms that face the Temple courtyard are holy rooms where the priests who go before the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. They will place the most holy offerings there because the place is holy, and include the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings.

Then said he unto me: 'The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering; for the place is holy.

14 Once the priests have entered these rooms, they are not to go to the outer courtyard before leaving their priestly clothes, because these are holy. They must change into other clothes before go where the ordinary people are.”

When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place 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 pertaineth to the people.'

15 After the man finished measuring inside of the Temple area, he took me out through the east gate, and he measured the surrounding area as well.

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

16 Using the measuring rod he measured the east side. It was 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. It was five hundred cubits long.

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

18 He measured the south side. It was 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. It was five hundred cubits long.

He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

20 So he measured all four sides. There was a wall surrounding it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, separating the holy from the common.

He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.