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 towards the north: and he brought me into the chamber that [was] over against the separate place, and which [was] before the building towards the north.

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

Before the length of a hundred cubits [was] the north door, and the breadth [was] 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 [were] for the inner court, and over against the pavement which [was] for the outer court, [was] 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 towards 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 were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of 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], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the building] was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from 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 over against the chambers, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it [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] in 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.

The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

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.

And the way before them [was] like the appearance of the chambers which [were] towards the north, as long as they, [and] as broad as they: and all their goings out [were] both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

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

And according to the doors of the chambers that [were] towards the south [was] a door in the head of the way, [even] the way directly before the wall towards 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 to me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers which [are] before the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests that approach to the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-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 therein, then shall they not go out of the holy [place] into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they [are] holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to [those things] which [are] for 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 towards the gate whose prospect [is] towards the east, and measured it around.

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 around.

17 He measured the north side. It was five hundred cubits long.

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

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 around, five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.