Ezekiel, 42

1. He then took me out into the outer court on the north side and led me to the room facing the court, that is to say, to the front of the building on the north side.

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.

2. Along the front, it was a hundred cubits long on the north side and fifty cubits wide.

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

3. Facing the gateways of the inner court and facing the paving of the outer court was a gallery in front of the triple gallery,

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].

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

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

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;

5. Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

6. these were divided into three storeys and had no columns such as the court had. Hence they were narrower than the ground floor ones or the middle-floor ones (below them).

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.

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

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.

8. the length of the rooms facing the outer court being fifty cubits, while for those facing the hall of the Temple it was a hundred cubits.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 were of similar design with similar doors in and out.

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.

12. Before the rooms on the south side there was an entrance at the end of each walk, opposite the corresponding wall on the east side, at their entries.

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.

13. He said to me, 'The northern and southern rooms giving onto the court are the rooms of the sanctuary, in which the priests who approach Yahweh will eat the most holy things. In them will be placed the most holy things: the oblation, the sacrifice for sin sin and the sacrifice of reparation, since this is a holy place.

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.

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 places assigned to the people.'

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.

15. When he had finished measuring the inside of the Temple, he took me out to the east gate and measured it right round the sides.

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.

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

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

17. He then measured the north side: 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.

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

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

19. was the total. On the west side he measured five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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

20. He measured the entire enclosing wall on all four sides: length five hundred, breadth five hundred, separating the sacred from the profane.

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.