Ezekiel, 42

1. Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that [was] over against the separate place, and which [was] before the building toward the north.

1. He took me northward into the court and led me to the rooms facing the outer court, and the building to the north.

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

2. They were one hundred cubits long on the north side 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 utter court, [was] gallery against gallery in three [stories].

3. On the sides facing the entrance of the inner court and the paving of the outer court was a gallery in front of the triple gallery,

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

4. and in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits broad measured inward and a hundred cubits long; their doors looked 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.

5. The top-floor rooms were narrow because the galleries took up part of the width, being narrower than those on the ground floor or those on the middle floor 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.

6. They were in three stories and had no columns such as those in the court had. Hence they were narrower than the groundfloor ones or the middle-floor ones below them.

7. And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof [was] fifty cubits.

7. The outer wall parallel to the rooms, facing them and giving on to the outer court, was fifty cubits long,

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

8. the length of the rooms facing the outer court being fifty cubits, while on the side facing the building it was a hundred cubits.

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

9. Beneath the rooms there was an entrance from the east, leading in from the outer court.

10. The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

10. In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south side fronting the court and the building, were rooms.

11. 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 goings out [were] both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

11. A walk ran in front of them, as with the rooms built on the north side; they were of the same length and breadth, and had similar design and doors in and out.

12. 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.

12. They were like the entrances of the southern rooms; one entrance at the end of each walk, fronting the eastern wall, being the way in. He said to me,

13. Then said he unto me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they [be] holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto 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.

13. "The northern and southern rooms giving on to the court are holy rooms, in which the priests who approach Yahweh will eat the most holy things. In them will be placed the most holy things: the offering, the sacrifice for sin and the sacrifice of repayment, since this is a holy place.

14. When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy [place] into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they [are] holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to [those things] which [are] for the people.

14. Once the priests have entered they will not go out of the holy place into the outer court without leaving their liturgical vestments there, since these vestments are holy; they will put on other clothes before going near the room assigned to the people."

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

15. When he had finished measuring the inside of the Temple, he took me out to the east gate and measured the whole area of the court.

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

16. He measured the east side with his measuring rod: a total of five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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

17. He then measured the north side: five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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

18. He then measured the south side: five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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

19. On the west side he measured five hundred cubits.

20. He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

20. So he measured the entire enclosing wall on all four sides: length five hundred, breadth five hundred. This separated the sacred from the profane.