Ezekiel 42
1 Then he brought me out to the outer court by the north way, and led me to the chamber opposite the sacred area and the building on the north.
2 Its entrance on the north side faced a length of one hundred cubits, and it was fifty cubits wide.
3 Across from the twenty cubits belonging to the inner court and across from the paved area belonging to the outer court, there was a gallery facing another gallery in three tiers.
4 In front of the chambers was an inner passageway ten cubits wide, a path one cubit wide; their entrances faced north.
5 The upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took up more space there than in the lower and middle levels of the building.
6 For they were in three tiers and had no columns like the columns of the courts. So the upper chambers were set back from the lower and middle ones, starting from the ground.
7 The outer wall alongside the chambers, facing the outer court in front of them, was fifty cubits long.
8 The chambers facing the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those in front of the temple were one hundred cubits long.
9 Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side for those entering them from the outer court.
10 Along the width of the court wall on the east side, opposite the sacred area and the building, there were chambers.
11 A passageway ran in front of them, like the one beside the chambers on the north. Their length and width were the same, and all their exits, arrangements, and entrances were alike.
12 The entrances of the chambers on the south side were similar: at the beginning of the passageway was an entrance, beside the corresponding wall on the east, through which one entered them.
13 Then he said to me, “The chambers on the north and the chambers on the south, opposite the sacred area, are the sanctuary chambers. There the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings: the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter, they must not leave the sanctuary for the outer court until they have left there the clothes in which they minister, because those clothes are holy. They must put on other clothes before approaching the area used by the people.”
15 When he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the gate facing east and measured the entire enclosure all around.
16 He measured the east side with the measuring rod: five hundred rods, using the measuring rod all around.
17 He measured the north side: five hundred rods, using the measuring rod all around.
18 He measured the south side: five hundred rods, using the measuring rod.
19 He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods, using the measuring rod.
20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy from the common.
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