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 ³Opposite 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 ⁸For^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 ⁹And 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 ¹⁶He 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.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to the way of the north”
bOr “along the face of”
cThat is, 175 feet
dOr “the”
eThat is, 87.5 feet
fLiterally “which were to the courtyard the inner”
gLiterally “toward in the face/front of”
hLiterally “to the face of”
iThat is, 17.5 feet
jOne cubit of 18–21 inches is problematic; LXX and Syriac read 100 cubits (175 feet) running the length of the building
kOr “there”
lLiterally “there were not for them pillars”
mOr “as”
nOr “for”
oLiterally “to the outside to corresponding”
pOr “of”
qThat is, “to the north”
rLiterally “to in face of”
sThat is, 87.5 feet
tHebrew “cubit”
uOr “while”
vHebrew “cubit”
wThat is, 87.5 feet
xOr “yet!”
yHebrew “cubit”
zThat is, 175 feet
aReading the Ketiv
bLiterally “at/in his/its coming”
cLiterally “on the way of the east”
dLiterally “was to the face of them”
eLiterally “were on the way of the north”
fDropping one “way”
gOr “protecting wall”
hOr “toward”
iThat is, when people entered the complex
jLiterally “to the front of”
kLiterally “are the chambers of the holiness”
lLiterally “holy objects of the holy objects”
mLiterally “holy objects of the holy objects”
nLiterally “at coming their”
oOr “deposit/leave/remove”
pLiterally “which its face is to the way of the east”
qLiterally “all around, all around”
rOr “rod”
sLiterally “of measuring”
tHebrew has “reeds” here (= 5,250 feet), which is not correct; 500 cubits = 875 feet.
uOr “side toward/to the sea”
vLiterally “toward the four winds”
wLiterally “all around, all around”
xThat is, 875 feet