Dual Panel1Then the man took me to the outer court round by the north and brought me to the rooms facing the free space and facing the buildings to the north.
2The length along the northern side was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty.
3Facing the twenty cubits of free space which adjoined the inner court, and facing the pavement of the outer court, were corridors at three levels corresponding to each other.
4In front of the rooms a passage, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, ran towards the inner court; the entrances to the rooms faced north.
5The upper rooms were narrower than the lower and middle rooms, because the corridors took building space from them.
6For they were all at three levels and had no pillars such as the courts had, so that the lower and middle levels were recessed from the ground upwards.
7An outside wall, fifty cubits long, ran parallel to the rooms and in front of them, on the side of the outer court,
8and while the rooms adjacent to the outer court were fifty cubits long, those facing the sanctuary were a hundred cubits.
9Below these rooms was an entry from the east on the way in from the outer court
10where the wall of the court began. On the south side, adjacent to the free space and the building,
11were other rooms with a passage in front of them. These rooms corresponded, in length and breadth and in general character, to those facing north,
12whose exits and entrances were the same as those of the rooms on the south. On the eastern approach, where the passages began, there was an entrance in the face of the inner wall.
13The man said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the free space are the consecrated rooms where the priests who approach the LORD are to eat the most sacred offerings. There they are to put these offerings as well as the grain-offering, the purification-offering, and the reparation-offering; for the place is holy.
14When the priests have entered the Holy Place they must not go into the outer court again without leaving there the vestments they have worn while performing their duties. Those are holy vestments and they are to put on other garments before going to the place assigned to the people.”
15When the man had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the gateway which faces east and measured the whole area.
16He measured the east side with the measuring rod, and it was five hundred cubits. He turned
17and measured the north side with his rod, and it was five hundred cubits. He turned to
18the south side and measured it with his rod; it was five hundred cubits.
19He turned to the west and measured it with his rod; it was five hundred cubits.
20So he measured all four sides of the enclosing wall; in each direction it measured five hundred cubits. This marked off the sacred area from the secular.