Ezekiel 41–42

The Inner Temple

41Then he brought me to ^mthe nave and measured the ⁿjambs. On each side six cubits¹ was the breadth of the jambs.^{2 2}And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave,^{3 o}forty cubits, and its breadth, ^ptwenty cubits. ³Then he went ^qinto the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side⁴ of the entrance, seven cubits. ⁴And he measured ^rthe length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across ^sthe nave. And he said to me, “This is ^tthe Most Holy Place.”

⁵Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of ^uthe side chambers, four cubits, ^uall around the temple. ⁶And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, ^vthirty in each story. There were offsets⁵ all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, ^wso that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. ⁷And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and ^xso one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. ⁸I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of ^ysix long cubits. ⁹The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. ^zThe free space between the side chambers of the temple ¹⁰and the ^aother chambers was a breadth of ^btwenty cubits all around the temple on every side. ¹¹And the doors of the ^cside chambers opened on ^dthe free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.

¹²The building that was facing ^ethe separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

¹³Then he measured the temple, ^fa hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; ¹⁴also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.

¹⁵Then he measured the length of ^gthe building facing the yard that was at the back and ^hits galleries⁶ on either side, a hundred cubits.

The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court, ¹⁶ⁱthe thresholds and ^jthe narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), ¹⁷to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.^{7 18}It was carved of ^kcherubim and ^lpalm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: ^19ma human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. ²⁰From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.

²¹The doorposts of ⁿthe nave were squared, and in front of ^othe Holy Place was something resembling ^22pan altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad.⁸ Its corners, its base,⁹ and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is ^qthe table that is before the Lord.” ²³The nave and the Holy Place had each ^ra double door. ²⁴The double doors had two leaves apiece, ^stwo swinging leaves for each door. ²⁵And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, ^tsuch as were carved on the walls. And there was ^ua canopy¹⁰ of wood in front of ^vthe vestibule outside. ²⁶And there were ^jnarrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, ^wthe side chambers of the temple, and the ^ucanopies.

The Temple’s Chambers

42Then he led me out into ^xthe outer court, ^ytoward the north, and he brought me to ^xthe chambers that were opposite ^zthe separate yard and opposite ^athe building on the north. ²The length of the building whose door faced north was ^ba hundred cubits,¹ and ^cthe breadth fifty cubits. ³Facing ^dthe twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ^ethe pavement that belonged to the outer court, was ^fgallery² against gallery in three stories. ⁴And ^gbefore the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and ^ha hundred cubits long,³ and ^gtheir doors were on the north. ⁵Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. ⁶For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. ⁷And ⁱthere was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, ^jfifty cubits long. ⁸For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ^kthe nave⁴ were ^la hundred cubits long. ⁹Below these chambers was ^man entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

¹⁰In the thickness of ⁿthe wall of the court, on the south⁵ also, opposite ^othe yard and opposite ^othe building, there were ^pchambers ¹¹with ^qa passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits⁶ and arrangements and ^qdoors, ¹²as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before ⁿthe corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.⁷

¹³Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite ^othe yard are the holy chambers, ^rwhere the priests who approach the Lord ^sshall eat the ^tmost holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—^tthe grain offering, ^uthe sin offering, and ^uthe guilt offering—for the place is holy. ¹⁴When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court ^vwithout laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. ^vThey shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

¹⁵Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by ^wthe gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. ¹⁶He measured the east side with ^xthe measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. ¹⁷He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. ¹⁸He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. ¹⁹Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. ²⁰He measured it on the four sides. It had ^ya wall around it, ^z500 cubits long and ^z500 cubits broad, ^ato make a separation between the holy and the common.