Ezekiel 41–42

Sanctuary and Temple

41And he brought me to the temple sanctuary,^a and he measured the pilasters, six cubits^b wide on each side;^c this was the width of the tent.^{d 2}And the width of the doorway was ten cubits,^e and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side,^f and he measured its^g length as forty cubits,^h and its width was twenty cubits.^{i 3}And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubits^j and the doorway as six cubits^k and the width of the doorway seven cubits.^{l 4}And he measured its length as twenty cubits^m and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, “This is the most holy place.ⁿ

⁵And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits,^o and the width of the side room as four cubits^p all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall.^{q 6}And the side rooms were side by side^r in three stories and a total of thirty rooms,^s and there were offsets^t in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, all the way around^u to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple. ⁷And each level widened, and it went around^v upward^w to the side rooms for the structure that surrounds^x the temple upward^y all the way around,^z therefore the width increased to the temple upward,^a and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story.

⁸And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around^b the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.^{c 9}The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits,^d and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple ¹⁰and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits^e all around the temple, all the way around^f it. ¹¹And the doorway of the side room faced^g the open area; one doorway faced^h the north,ⁱ and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubits^j all around.^{k 12}And the building that faced^l the courtyard was toward the west,^m and its width was seventy cubits,ⁿ and the wall of the building was five cubits^o wide all the way around,^p and its length was ninety cubits.^{q 13}And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits,^r and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits.^{s 14}And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits.^{t 15}And he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard^u at the rear^v and its galleries, a hundred cubits^w on each side,^x and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard, ¹⁶the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around,^y and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered. ¹⁷Above^z the doorway and up to the inner temple^a and on the outside, and on all of the wall all the way around^b in the inner and in the outer areas were patterns,^{c 18}and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and the cherub had two faces.^{d 19}And the face of a human was toward^e the palm tree image on the one side,^f and the face of a fierce strong lion faced^g the palm tree image on the other side;^h this work was executedⁱ for the entire temple all the way around.^{j 20}From the ground up to above^k the doorway,^l the cherubim and the palm tree images were made,^m and also the outer wall of the temple.

²¹As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and beforeⁿ the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of ²²a wooden altar^o that was three cubits^p high, and its length was two cubits,^q and its corners^r for it and its length and its walls were of wood. And he spoke to me, “This is the table that is before^s Yahweh.” ²³And the two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary. ²⁴And two leaves^t of a door were for each of the doors, two hinged leaves of a door: two were for the first door, and two leaves of a door were for the other door. ²⁵And cherubim were made^u on them, that is, on the doors of the temple and palm tree images like the ones prepared for the walls;^v and an overhang of wood was on the surface of the porticos on the outside. ²⁶And narrow windows and palm tree images were on either side,^w and on the side walls of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple and their^x overhang.

Description of Rooms for the Priests

42And he brought me out to the outer courtyard to the north,^a and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and which is opposite the building to the north. ²As to^b the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits,^c and its^d width was fifty cubits.^{e 3}Opposite the twenty cubits of the inner courtyard,^f and opposite the pavement that was to the outer courtyard was a gallery facing^g a gallery in the three stories. ⁴And in front of^h the chambers was a passageway ten cubitsⁱ in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit,^j and their doorways were to the north. ⁵And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building. ⁶For they^k were three stories and they had no pillars^l like^m the pillars ofⁿ the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up. ⁷And there was a wall that was to the outside alongside^o the chambers on the walkway to^p the outer courtyard^q in front of^r the chambers; its length was fifty^s cubits.^{t 8}For^u the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty^v cubits,^w and look!^x The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred^y cubits.^{z 9}And from under these chambers was the entrance^a from the east for them when one enters^b from the outer courtyard.

¹⁰All along the width of the wall of the courtyard eastward^c in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers. ¹¹And a walkway was before them^d like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north,^e just like them in their length, and so was their width and all their exits, and they were built like their arrangements and like their doorways, ¹²and like the doorways of the chambers which were on the way of the south was a doorway at the head of the way^f before the stone wall, projecting^g on^h the way of the east at their coming.ⁱ

¹³And he said to me, “The chambers of the north and the chambers of the south which are before^j the courtyard, they are the holy chambers^k in which the priests, who are near to Yahweh, will eat the most holy objects.^l There they shall put the most holy objects,^m and the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy. ¹⁴When the priests enter,ⁿ then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must put^o their garments in which they serve because they are holy. They must put on other garments and then they may approach the area that is for the people.

¹⁵And he completed the measurements of the inner temple, and he brought me to the walkway of the gate that faces toward the east^p and he measured it all the way around.^{q 16}He measured the east side with the reed^r for^s measuring, five hundred cubits,^t with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement, he measured it all around. ¹⁷He measured the north side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement all around. ¹⁸Then he measured the south side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement. ¹⁹He went around the west side^u and he measured five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement. ²⁰Toward the four sides^v he measured it; there was a wall for it all the way around.^w Its length was five hundred cubits^x and its width was five hundred cubits, in order to make a separation between what is holy and what is common.