Ezekiel 42

¹Then he led me out into the outer court , toward the north , and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north .

²The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits , and the breadth fifty cubits .

³Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court , and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court , was gallery against gallery in three stories.

⁴And before the chambers was a passage inward , ten cubits wide a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north .

⁵Now the upper chambers were narrower , for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building .

⁶For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts . Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones .

⁷And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers , toward the outer court , opposite the chambers , fifty cubits long .

⁸For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long , while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.

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

¹⁰In the thickness of the wall of the court , on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building , there were chambers

¹¹with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north , of the same length and breadth , with the same exits and arrangements and doors ,

¹²as were the entrances of the chambers on the south . There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage , the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.

¹³Then he said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers , where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings . There they shall put the most holy offerings — the grain offering , the sin offering , and the guilt offering — for the place is holy .

¹⁴When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister , for these are holy . They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people .

¹⁵Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area , he led me out by the gate that faced east , and measured the temple area all around .

¹⁶He measured the east side with the measuring reed , 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around .

¹⁷He measured the north side , 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around .

¹⁸He measured the south side , 500 cubits by the measuring reed .

¹⁹Then he turned to the west side and measured , 500 cubits by the measuring reed .

²⁰He measured it on the four sides . It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad , to make a separation between the holy and the common .