Ezekiel 41–42

CHAPTER 41

The Nave

¹Then he ^abrought me to the ^1bnave and measured the ^cside pillars; ²six cubits wide on each side was the width of the ³side pillar.

²The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the ¹sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured ²the length of the nave, ^3aforty cubits, and the width, ^btwenty cubits.

The Holy of Holies

³Then he went ^1ainside and measured each ^bside pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

⁴He measured its length, ^atwenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the ^bnave; and he said to me, “This is the ^cHoly of Holies.”

The Wall, Side Chambers, and West Building

⁵Then he measured the wall of the house of Yahweh, six cubits; and the width of the ^aside chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

^6aThe side chambers were in three stories, ¹one above another, and ²thirty in each story; and ³the side chambers ^bextended to the wall which stood on ⁴their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the house itself.

⁷The side chambers surrounding the house were wider at each successive story. Because the ^astructure surrounding the house went upward by stages on all sides of the house, therefore the width of the house increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ¹second story.

⁸I saw also that the house had a raised ¹platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of ^2asix ³long cubits in height.

⁹The ¹thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ^afree space between the side chambers belonging to the house

¹⁰and the outer ^achambers was twenty cubits in width all around the house on every side.

¹¹The ¹doorways of the ²side chambers toward the ^afree space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the place of the ^bfree space was five cubits all around.

¹²The ^abuilding that was in front of the ^bseparate area at the side toward the west was ¹seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits ²thick all around, and its length was ³ninety cubits.

The Measurements of the Building

¹³Then he measured the house, ¹one ^ahundred cubits long; the ^bseparate area with the ^cbuilding and its walls were also one ^dhundred cubits long.

¹⁴Also the width of the front of the house and that of the separate ¹areas along the east side totaled one hundred cubits.

¹⁵He measured the length of the ^abuilding ¹along the front of the ^bseparate area behind it, with a ^2cgallery on each side, one hundred cubits, along with the inner nave and the porches of the court.

Carvings and Furnishings

¹⁶The ^athresholds, the ^1blatticed windows, and the ^2cgalleries round about their ^dthree stories, opposite the threshold, were ^epaneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

¹⁷over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.

¹⁸It was ¹carved with ^acherubim and ^bpalm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

¹⁹a ^aman’s face toward the palm tree on one side and a young ^blion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were ¹carved on all the house all around.

²⁰From the ground to above the entrance ^acherubim and ^bpalm trees were ¹carved, as well as on the wall of the nave.

²¹The ^adoorposts of the ^bnave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.

²²The ^aaltar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its ¹base, and its ²sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the ^btable that is before Yahweh.”

²³The ^anave and the ^bsanctuary each had a double ^cdoor.

²⁴Each of the doors had two leaves, two ^1aswinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

²⁵Also there were ¹carved on them, on the doors of the nave, ^acherubim and ^bpalm trees like those ²carved on the walls; and there was a ^ccanopy of wood over the front of the porch outside.

²⁶There were ^1alatticed windows and ^bpalm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the ^cporch; thus were the ^dside chambers of the house and the canopies.

CHAPTER 42

The Chambers

¹Then he ^abrought me out into the ^bouter court, the way ^ctoward the north; and he brought me to the ^dchamber which was opposite the ^eseparate area and opposite the ^fbuilding toward the north.

²Along the length, which was ¹one ^ahundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

³Opposite the ^1atwenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the ^bpavement which belonged to the outer court, was ^2cgallery corresponding to ³gallery in three stories.

⁴Before the ^achambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of ¹one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

⁵Now the upper chambers were ¹smaller because the ^2agalleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

⁶For they were in ^athree stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were ¹set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

⁷As for the ^aouter wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.

⁸For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was one ^ahundred cubits.

⁹Below these chambers was the ^aentrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

¹⁰In the ¹thickness of the ^awall of the court toward the east, facing the ^bseparate area and facing the building, there were ^cchambers.

¹¹The ^away in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their ¹arrangements and openings.

¹²Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the ^awall toward the east, as one enters them.

¹³Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the ^aseparate area, they are the ^bholy chambers where the priests who are ^cnear to Yahweh shall eat the ^dmost holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

¹⁴“When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary ¹without ^alaying there their ^bgarments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall come near to that which is for the people.”

¹⁵Then he had finished measuring the inner house; he brought me out by the way of the ^agate which faced toward the east and measured it all around.

¹⁶He measured on the east ¹side with the measuring reed 500 reeds by the ^ameasuring reed.

¹⁷He measured on the north side 500 reeds by the measuring reed.

¹⁸On the south side he measured 500 reeds with the measuring reed.

¹⁹He turned to the west side and measured 500 reeds with the measuring reed.

²⁰He measured it ¹on the four sides; it had a ^awall all around, the ^blength 500 and the ^cwidth 500, to ^ddivide between the holy and the profane.