Ezekiel 42

1 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,

Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.

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

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

3 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.

Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.

4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

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

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

6 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.

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

7 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.

An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.

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

For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.

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

And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

10 In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers,

On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

11 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,

with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.

12 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.

And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.

13 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.

Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.

14 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.'

Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”

15 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.

Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:

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

With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

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

He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.

18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.

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

And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

20 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.

So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.