Ezekiel 42

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.