Ezekiel 42

1 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.

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 Before the length of a hundred cubits [was] the north door, and the breadth [was] 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 [were] for the inner court, and over against the pavement which [was] for the outer court, [was] 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 towards 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 were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of 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], 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.

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 over against the chambers, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it [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] in 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 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.

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

11 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 towards the gate whose prospect [is] towards the east, and measured it around.

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 around.

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 around.

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

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.