A description of the courts, chambers, and other places belonging to
the temple.
42:1. And he brought me forth into the outward court by the way that
leadeth to the north, and he brought me into the chamber that was over
against the separate building, and over against the house toward the
north.
42:2. In the face of the north door was the length of hundred cubits,
and the breadth of fifty cubits.
42:3. Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over
against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone,
where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.
42:4. And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to
the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the
north.
42:5. Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up
the galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts,
and from the midst of the building.
42:6. For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the
pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower
places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.
42:7. And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were
towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty
cubits long.
42:8. For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty
cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.
42:9. And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the east,
for them that went into them out of the outward court.
42:10. In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward
the east, over against the separate building, and there were chambers
before the building.
42:11. And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward
the north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the
going in to them, and their fashions, and their doors were alike.
42:12. According to the doors of the chambers that were towards the
south: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before
the porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in.
42:13. And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers
of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy
chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord
into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and
the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.
42:14. And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not go
out of the holy places into the outward court: but there they shall lay
their vestments, wherein they minister, for they are holy: and they
shall put on other garments, and so they shall go forth to the people.
42:15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he
brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and
he measured it on every side round about.
42:16. And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
42:17. And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed round about.
42:18. And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed round about.
42:19. And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed.
42:20. By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side
round about, five hundred cubits and five hundred cubits broad, making
a separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people.