Ezekiel 42

1 Next the man sent me out to the outer courtyard on the north side, and he brought me to rooms in front of the outer courtyard and the northern outer wall.

Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was opposite the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

2 Those rooms were one hundred cubits along their front and fifty cubits in width.

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

3 Some of those rooms faced the inner courtyard and were twenty cubits away from the sanctuary. There were three levels of rooms, and the ones above looked down on the ones below and were open to them, having a walkway. Some of the rooms looked out onto the outer courtyard.

Opposite the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement which was for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

4 A passage ten cubits in width and one hundred cubits in length ran in front of the rooms. The rooms' doors were toward the north.

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

5 But the upper halls were smaller, for the walkways took away from them more space than they did in the lowest and middle levels of the building.

Now the upper chambers were narrower: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middle ones of the building.

6 For the halls on the third story had no columns, unlike the courtyards, which did have columns. So the highest level's rooms were smaller in size compared to the rooms in the lowest and middle levels.

For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the upper chambers were set back more than the lower and the middle ones from the ground.

7 The outside wall ran along the rooms toward the outer courtyard, the courtyard that was in front of the rooms. That wall was fifty cubits in length.

And the wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.

8 The length of the rooms of the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and the rooms facing the sanctuary were one hundred cubits in length.

For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

9 There was an entrance to the lowest rooms from the east side, coming from the outer courtyard.

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

10 Along the wall of the outer courtyard on the eastern side of the outer courtyard, in front of the sanctuary's inner courtyard, there were also rooms

The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate place, and opposite the building.

11 with a walkway in front of them. They were as the appearance of the rooms on the northern side. They had the same length and breadth and the same exits and arrangements and doors.

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

12 On the south side were doors into rooms that were just the same as on the north side. A passage on the inside had a door at its head, and the passage opened into the various rooms. On the east side there was a doorway into the passage at one end.

And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

13 Then the man said to me, “The northern rooms and the southern rooms that are in front of the outer courtyard are holy rooms where the priests who work nearest to Yahweh may eat the most holy food. They will put the most holy things there—the food offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for this is a holy place.

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 When the priests enter there, they must not go out of the holy place to the outer court, without laying aside the clothes in which they served, since these are holy. So they must dress in other clothes before going near the people.”

When the priests enter in it, 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 The man completed measuring the inner house and then took me out to the gate that faced the east and measured all the surrounding area there.

Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.

16 He measured the east side with a measuring stick—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed on every side.

17 He measured the north side—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

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

18 He also measured the south side—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

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

19 He also turned and measured the west side—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

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

20 He measured it on four sides. It had a wall around it that was five hundred cubits in length, and five hundred cubits in width, to separate the holy from that which is common.

He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall all around, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the common place.