Ezekiel 42

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

2Along the front, which was a hundred cubits long, was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.

3Opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in three stories.

4In front of the chambers was a walkway ten cubits wide on the inner side, a way of one cubit, and their doors were on the north.

5The upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

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

7There was an outer wall parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, in front of the chambers. It was fifty cubits long.

8For the chambers along the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the main hall were a hundred cubits long.

9Below these chambers was the entrance on the east side, for one entering them from the outer court.

10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers,

11with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north. They had the same length and the same width, and all their exits, their arrangements, and their doors were alike.

12Like the doors of the chambers on the south, there was a door at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east, for those entering them.

13Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers that face the separate area are the holy chambers where the priests who come near to Yahweh are to eat the most holy offerings. There they are to put the most holy offerings, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.

14When the priests enter, they are not to go out of the holy place into the outer court until they have laid there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other garments before they approach the area that is for the people.”

15When he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out by the gate that faced east and measured the area all around.

16He measured the east side with the measuring rod: five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

17He measured the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

18He measured the south side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

19He turned to the west side and measured it: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

20He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy from the common.