Esekiel 42

1 So let han meg ganga ut i den ytre fyregarden den vegen som gjekk nordetter. Og han let meg koma til den kovebygnaden som låg midt framfor det fråskilde tunet og beint imot bygnaden i nord,

And he brought me into the inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he brought me in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition,

2 til langsida som var på hundrad alner, med inngang i nord, men breiddi var femti alner.

a hundred cubits in length toward the north, and in breadth fifty,

3 Beint imot eit stykke på tjuge alner av den indre fyregarden og midt framfor steingolvet i den ytre fyregarden, var det sval mot sval i tri høgder.

ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, [with] triple porticos fronting one another.

4 Og framanfor kovarne var det ein ti alner breid gang innetter, ein veg på ei aln; og dørerne deira snudde i nord.

And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length [reaching] to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

5 Og dei øvste kovarne var dei minste, for svalerne tok burt meir rom frå deim enn frå dei nedste og dei millomste i bygnaden.

And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, [even] from the range of columns below, and [there was] a space between; so [were there] a peristyle and a space between, and so [were there] two porticos.

6 For dei låg i tri høgder, men hadde ikkje stolpar so som dei i fyregarden; difor smalkast det meir for dei øvste kovarne enn for dei nedste og millomste, frå jordi og uppetter.

For they were triple, and they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer ones: therefore they projected from the lower ones and the middle ones from the ground.

7 Og ein mur som var utanfor, frammed kovarne, imot den ytre fyregarden, gjekk framanfor kovarne. Han var femti alner lang.

And [there was] light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length [of them was] fifty cubits.

8 For lengdi på dei kovarne som låg imot den ytre fyregarden, var femti alner, men sjå, mot templet: hundrad alner.

For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.

9 Og nedunder desse kovarne var inngangen mot aust, når ein gjekk inn i deim frå den ytre fyregarden.

And [there were] doors of these chambers for an outlet toward the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,

10 Der fyregardsmuren imot aust var på det tjukkaste, framanfor det fråskilde tunet og framanfor bygnaden, var det kovar.

by the opening of the walk at the corner; and the south parts were toward the south, toward the remaining space, and toward the partition, and [so were] the chambers.

11 Og ein veg gjekk framanfor deim. Dei såg ut som dei kovarne som låg mot nord, like lange og like breide; likeins alle utgangar og tilskipnader elles og dørgap.

And the walk was in front of them, according to the measures of the chambers toward the north, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to all their openings, an according to all their turnings, and according to their lights, and according to their doors.

12 Og likeins dørerne på dei kovarne som låg mot sud; det var ei dør der som vegen tok til, vegen frammed den muren som høyrde til, vegen austetter når ein gjekk inn i deim.

[So were the measures] of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them.

13 So sagde han med meg: «Kovarne mot nord og kovarne mot sud, som ligg innmed det fråskilde tunet, dei er heilage kovar, der prestarne som er nær Herren skal eta det høgheilage. Der skal dei leggja det høgheilage, både grjonofferet og syndofferet og skuldofferet, for staden er heilag.

And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons of Sadduc, who draw night to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; because the place is holy.

14 Når prestarne gjeng inn, so skal dei ikkje ganga ut att or heilagdomen og ut i den ytre fyregarden, men der skal dei leggja av seg klædi som dei hev gjort tenesta i, for dei er heilage. Dei skal taka på seg andre klæde og so ganga dit der folket må vera.»

None shall go in thither except the priests, [and] they shall not go forth of the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw nigh [to me] may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister, [with defilement], for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they come in contact with the people.

15 Og då han hadde gjort mælingi frå seg i det indre huset, fylgde han meg ut gjenom den porten som hadde framsida mot aust, og der mælte han rundt ikring.

So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order.

16 Han mælte austsida med mælestongi: fem hundrad stenger etter mælestongi rundt ikring.

And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred [cubits] with the measuring reed.

17 Han mælte nordsida: fem hundrad stenger etter mælestongi rundt ikring.

And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north [side] five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

18 Sudsida mælte han: fem hundrad stenger etter mælestong.

And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundred [cubits] with the measuring reed.

19 Han snudde og gjekk mot vestsida; han mælte fem hundrad stenger etter mælestong.

And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred [cubits] by the measuring reed.

20 På dei fire sidorne mælte han det. Det hadde ein mur rundt ikring: fem hundrad stenger lang og fem hundrad breid, til å skilja det heilage frå det som var uhelga.

The [four sides he measured] by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, [a space] of five hundred [cubits] eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that [belonged to] the design of the house.