Ezekiel 41:5–9

The Rooms Built against the Temple Walls

^5*The man measured the thickness of the inner wall of the temple building, and it was three metres. Against this wall, all round the Temple, was a series of small rooms two metres wide. ^6*These rooms were in three storeys, with thirty rooms on each floor. The Temple’s outer wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without being anchored into it. ^7*And so the temple walls, when seen from the outside, seemed to have the same thickness all the way to the top. Against the Temple’s outer wall, on the outside of the rooms, two wide stairways were built, so that it was possible to go from the lower storey to the middle and the upper storeys.^{a 8–11*}The outside wall of these rooms was two and a half metres thick; there was one door into the rooms on the north side of the Temple, and one into those on the south side. I saw that there was a terrace two and a half metres wide all round the Temple; it was three metres above the ground and it was level with the foundation of the rooms by the temple walls. Between the terrace and the buildings used by the priests there was an open space ten metres across, along the sides of the Temple.