Ezekiel 42 Now when he had measured on this side and that to the cieling of the ailam and to the galleries adjoining the house, he then led me into the inner court on the east, conducting me towards the north gate.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now when he had measured on this side and that to the cieling of the ailam and to the galleries adjoining the house, he then led me into the inner court on the east, conducting me towards the north gate. ² And lo! there were five chambers adjoining the vacancy and the north partition wall, in length fronting the north one hundred cubits and in breadth fifty cubits, ³ sculptured in the same manner as the gates of the inner court and set off in the same manner as the peristyles of the outer court with a triple range of piazzas in front of the house. ⁴ And over against the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad and a hundred cubits long and their doors were towards the north. ⁵ And in like manner there were walks for the upper stories. For the upper piazza was taken from the building and out of that which was a piazza below was made a platform. So there was a piazza and a platform; and this was the case with two of the piazzas, ⁶ for there were three one above another.; But they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer piazzas; therefore the upper chambers were straightened more than the middle and the middle more than those on the ground. ⁷ And they had light from without in the same manner as the chambers of the outer court, in front of these chambers on the north, the extent being fifty cubits. ⁸ For the chambers which looked into the outer court were fifty cubits deep and were the fore front of these. The whole building was a hundred cubits long. ⁹ Now there were doors of these chambers opening into an entry facing the east. So there was a passage through them from the outer court along this entry to the lighted walk at the head of this passage. ¹⁰ And with regard to those on the south in front of that vacancy and in front of that partition wall, both the chambers ¹¹ and the walk before them were of the same measures as those of the chambers on the north. Their length was the same; and their breadth the same. And all their outlets and all their windings were the same; and their lights and their doors the same. ¹² And these chambers on the south had in like manner doors from the head of the walk into an entry which was a reed broad and gave a passage to the east. ¹³ And he said to me, these chambers on the north and those on the south which are in front of the vacancies, are the chambers of the sanctuary, in which the priests the sons of Sadduk, who come near to the Lord, are to eat the holy meats and where they are to lay up the most holy things, the sacrifice and the sin offerings and the trespass offerings. Because this is a holy place, ¹⁴ none but the priests are to go in there. That they who offer up the offerings may be continually holy, and that none may touch the garments in which they minister because they are holy, the priests must not go out from the sanctuary into the outer court. And when they are to mix with the people they must put on other garments. ¹⁵ Now when he had completed the measuring of the inner house, he then led me out by the way of the gate facing the east and measured the plot of the house all around in order. ¹⁶ Having taken a station behind the gate facing the east he measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. ¹⁷ Then turning at the north he measured the north side five hundred cubits with his measuring reed. ¹⁸ Then turning at the west he measured the west side five hundred with his measuring reed; ¹⁹ then turning at the south he measured five hundred with his measuring reed. ²⁰ The four sides of the height and breadth of this same reed. And he appointed this, namely, the surrounding parapet wall which was five hundred cubits on the east side and five hundred cubits broad to make a separation between the Holies and the vacant space before the wall, which was to be comprehended in the plot of the house.