Ezekiel 42

1 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 The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

3 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 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 smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

6 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 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 chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.

9 And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

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

11 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 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 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 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 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 With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.

17 He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.

18 He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long.

19 And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

20 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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 ¶ 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 the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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

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

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

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.

1 And he brought me out unto the outer court northward, under the chambers that were over against the building that hung upon the temple, and over against the temple northward,

2 Which place was an hundred cubits long from the gate toward the north, and fifty cubits broad.

3 Twenty cubits were toward the inner court, and toward the pavement in the outer court, and thirty cubits from one corner to another.

4 And within the chambers was a place ten cubits broad before the doors of the chambers: all this was toward the north.

5 And above these chambers were other chambers narrower: for the space of the lower and middle chambers was not large.

6 For it was three chambers high, and yet had no pillars, as the courts had pillars, but were badly set one upon another.

7 And the outer court was compassed about with a wall, where the chambers were: the wall was fifty cubits long.

8 And the chambers were one after another, even fifty cubits, in the outer court: but the space before the temple was an hundred cubits;

9 And down before the chambers was a place toward the east, as one went out of the outer court:

10 And by the wall of the east were chambers also.

11 And there was also a place before it, as before those chambers, toward the north: and all was the same in length, and in breadth, and in all that was therein, as it was above in them.

12 And at noon there were also the same chambers with their doors: and before the place was the door at noon, to which one cometh from the wall that lieth on the east.

13 And he said unto me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, which are toward the temple, are of the sanctuary, wherein the priests eat, when they offer the most holy sacrifice unto the LORD. And they shall put therein the most holy sacrifices, the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: for it is a holy place.

14 And when the priests go in, they shall not go out again of the sanctuary into the outer court, but shall first lay aside their garments wherein they ministered in the chambers thereof: for they are holy: and they shall put on their other garments, and then go forth among the people.

15 And when he had measured the house within, he brought me forth unto the gate toward the east, and measured it round about.

16 In the morning he measured five hundred rods.

17 And about midnight he also measured five hundred rods,

18 likewise about noon also five hundred rods.

19 And when he was come toward even, he measured also five hundred rods.

20 So the wall which he measured was fourscore and five hundred rods on every side round about, that the holy might be divided from the unholy.