Ezekiel 41–42

Chapter 41

The Inner Temple

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

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 ^cmost holy place.”

⁵Then he measured the wall of the ¹temple, 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 temple itself.

⁷The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ^astructure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple 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 ^asix ²long 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 temple

¹⁰and the outer ^achambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple 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 free space was five cubits all around.

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

¹³Then he measured the temple, a ^ahundred cubits long; the ^bseparate area with the ^cbuilding and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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

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

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 lion’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 palm 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 the Lord.”

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 palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a ^2bthreshold of wood on 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 ²thresholds.

Chapter 42

Chambers of the Temple

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 a ^ahundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

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

⁴Before the ^achambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one 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 a ^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 arrangements 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 the Lord 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 approach that which is for the people.”

¹⁵Now when 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 side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the ^ameasuring reed.

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

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

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

²⁰He measured it ¹on the four sides; it had a ^awall all around, the ^blength five hundred and the width five hundred, to ^cdivide between the holy and the profane.