Ezekiel 42

1 Then he led me forth to the outer court, in the direction toward the north, and he brought me to the rooms which were before the separate place, and before the building toward the north.

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.

2 The length was a hundred cubits before the gate toward the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits;

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

3 over against the twenty cubits in the inner court, and over against the pavement in the outer court, was gallery before gallery, in three rows.

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.

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 rooms was an inside walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors opened to the north.

5 And the upper rooms were narrower (for the galleries took away room from them) than the lower and middle chambers of the building.

The upper rooms were smaller because of the space taken up by the open halls on the lower and middle levels of the building.

6 For they were in three stories; but had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts; therefore they were narrower than the lowest, and than the middlemost from the ground.

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

7 And as to the wall that was without, over against the chambers, toward the outer court, before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

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

8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; but before the temple it was a hundred cubits.

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

9 And under these rooms was an entry from the east, as one came to them from the outer court.

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

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

Along the wall on the south side of the outer courtyard were rooms next to the courtyard and opposite the building.

11 And there was a way before them similar to that before the rooms toward the north. Both their length and their breadth were the same, and all their goings out and their fashions and their doors were the same.

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.

12 And so also were the doors of the rooms toward the south; there was a door at the head of the way, before the well-built wall in the way toward the east, as one entered into them.

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

13 Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are holy rooms, where the priests, when they come near to Jehovah, eat the most holy things. There shall they lay the most holy things, both the flour-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy.

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.

14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but shall leave there the garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and approach to the place which belongeth to the people.

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.”

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And he came around and measured the west side. It was five hundred cubits long.

20 On all the four sides measured he the wall round about five hundred reeds in length, and five hundred in breadth, to make a separation between the holy and the unholy place.

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.