Ezekiel 41

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.