Ezekiel 42:5-20 ▼

5 And the upper chambers were shorter, for the galleries took away from them, on the lower and middle of the building.

6 For they were in three parts, and there was not unto them pillars like the pillars of the courts; upon thus it was shortened from the ground more than the lower and middle.

7 And a wall that was on the outside was over against the chambers, toward the outer court, toward the face of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits, and, behold, upon those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.

9 And below these chambers was the entry on the east, as one enters them from the outer court.

10 Along the length of the wall of the court toward the south, toward the face of the separating courtyard, and toward the face of the building, were chambers

11 and a pathway before them, the appearance of the chambers that were toward the north, like their length so their width, and all their exits and according to their doors and according to their fashions,

12 and according to their doors of the chambers that were toward the south. A door was at the head of the walkway, directly at the face of the wall toward the east in entering them.

13 And he said to me: “The chambers to the north and the chambers to the south, which are toward the face of the separating courtyard, they are the holy chambers in which the priests, those who nearest to YHWH, will eat there the holy of holies; they will lay the holy of holies there—the grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.

14 With the entering of the priests, they will not go out the holy area into the outer court, and there they will leave their garments in which they minister—for they are holy—and they will put on other garments, they may come near to that which is for the people.”

15 And he had completed the measurements of the inner temple, and he brought me out through the gateway that has its face toward the east, and he measured it round about.

16 He measured the side to the east with a measuring rod, five hundred cubits, by the measuring rod, all around.

17 He measured the side to the north, five hundred cubits, by the measuring rod, all around.

18 The side to the south he measured, five hundred cubits, by the measuring rod.

19 He came around to the side to the west; he measured five hundred cubits, by the measuring rod.

20 At the four sides he measured it. A wall was unto it round about, a length of five hundred cubits, and a width of five hundred, to separate between the holy and the common.