Ezekiel
42
- Then the man led me northward into the outer
court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite
the outer wall on the north side.
- The building whose door faced north was
a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
- Both in the section twenty cubits from the
inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery
faced gallery at the three levels.
- In front of the rooms was an inner passageway
ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
- Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the
galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle
floors of the building.
- The rooms on the third floor had no pillars,
as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower
and middle floors.
- There was an outer wall parallel to the
rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.
- While the row of rooms on the side next
to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the
sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.
- The lower rooms had an entrance on the east
side as one enters them from the outer court.
- On the south side along the length of the
wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer
wall, were rooms
- with a passageway in front of them. These
were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with
similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north
- were the doorways of the rooms on the south.
There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to
the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
- Then he said to me, "The north and
south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests' rooms, where the
priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they
will put the most holy offerings -- the grain offerings, the sin offerings
and the guilt offerings -- for the place is holy.
- Once the priests enter the holy precincts,
they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments
in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes
before they go near the places that are for the people."
- When he had finished measuring what was
inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area
all around:
- He measured the east side with the measuring
rod; it was five hundred cubits.
- He measured the north side; it was five
hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
- He measured the south side; it was five
hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
- Then he turned to the west side and measured;
it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
- So he measured the area on all four sides.
It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits
wide, to separate the holy from the common.
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