Ezekiel 41

¹ Then he brought me to the temple and measured the doorposts: six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other—the width of the tent.

² The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other. He measured its length: forty cubits, and its width: twenty cubits.

³ Then he went inside and measured the entrance post: two cubits; the entrance: six cubits; and the entrance’s width: seven cubits.

⁴ He measured its length: twenty cubits, and its width: twenty cubits, in front of the temple. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

⁵ He measured the wall of the temple: six cubits thick, and each side chamber was four cubits wide, all around the temple.

⁶ The side chambers were stacked one above another, thirty-three in all. They extended into the wall that belonged to the temple, all around, so they could be supported; but they were not supported by the temple wall.

⁷ The side chambers widened as they went up, winding around the temple and rising higher and higher. The structure surrounding the temple rose higher and higher all around it; so the temple became wider as it went up. One went up from the lower chamber to the upper one by way of the middle chamber.

⁸ I saw that the temple had a raised foundation all around: the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed, six cubits up to the joint.

⁹ The outer wall belonging to the side chambers was five cubits thick. The open space was the area of the side chambers belonging to the temple.

¹⁰ Between the rooms there was a space twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

¹¹ The side chamber’s entrance opened onto the open space: one entrance faced north and one faced south. The open space was five cubits wide all around.

¹² The building facing the separated area on the west side was seventy cubits wide. Its wall was five cubits thick all around, and it was ninety cubits long.

¹³ He measured the temple: one hundred cubits long. The separated area, the building, and its walls were one hundred cubits long.

¹⁴ The front of the temple and the separated area on the east was one hundred cubits wide.

¹⁵ He measured the length of the building facing the separated area behind it, together with its galleries on either side: one hundred cubits. The inner temple and the vestibules of the court were also included.

¹⁶ The thresholds, the latticed windows, and the galleries around all three structures were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows; and the windows were covered.

¹⁷ Above the entrance, as far as the inner temple, and outside, all around the wall, inside and out, everything was measured.

¹⁸ There were carved cherubim and palm trees: a palm tree between each pair of cherubim, and each cherub had two faces.

¹⁹ A human face looked toward the palm tree on one side, and a young lion’s face looked toward the palm tree on the other side. This was carved throughout the whole temple, all around.

²⁰ From the floor to above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved, and also on the temple wall.

²¹ The temple had square doorposts, and the front of the sanctuary had the same appearance.

²² The altar was made of wood. It was three cubits high and two cubits long. It had corners, and its length and its sides were made of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that stands before the LORD.”

²³ The temple and the sanctuary each had two doors.

²⁴ Each door had two leaves that swung open: two leaves for one door and two for the other.

²⁵ Carved on them—the doors of the temple—were cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls. There was also a wooden beam in front of the vestibule, on the outside.

²⁶ There were latticed windows and palm trees on either side of the vestibule’s side walls, as well as the side chambers of the temple and the beams.

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