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.

And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

2 Before the length of a hundred cubits [was] the north door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits.

On the north side it 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].

Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

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

And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing 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.

And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

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 on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

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.

And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

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 rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

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

And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

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.

(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

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.

And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

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 under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

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.

And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; 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.

When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with 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.

And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

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

He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

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

And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

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

And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

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

And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

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.

He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.