Ezekiel 41-42

Ezekiel 41

¹And he brought me to the temple; and he measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, the breadth of the tent.

²And the breadth of the entry was ten cubits, and the sides of the entry were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

³And he went inwards, and measured the post of the entry, two cubits; and the entry, six cubits; and the breadth of the entry, seven cubits.

⁴And he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

⁵And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

⁶And the side-chambers were three, chamber over chamber, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which the house had for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold; but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

⁷And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about the house increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended from the lower story to the upper, by the middle one.

⁸And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.

⁹The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.

¹⁰And between the cells and the house was a width of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

¹¹And the entry of the side-chambers was toward what was left free, one entry toward the north, and one entry toward the south; and the width of the space left free was five cubits round about.

¹²And the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about; and its length ninety cubits.

¹³And he measured the house: the length a hundred cubits; and the separate place, and the building, and its walls, the length a hundred cubits;

¹⁴and the breadth of the front of the house, and of the separate places toward the east, a hundred cubits.

¹⁵And he measured the length of the building before the separate place, which was at the back of it, with its galleries on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.

¹⁶The thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about the three of them (opposite the thresholds it was wainscoted with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered),

¹⁷and above, over the entry, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about, within and without, all was by measure.

¹⁸And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees, and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub; and the cherub had two faces:

¹⁹the face of a man was toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side: so was it made upon all the house round about.

²⁰From the ground unto above the entry were the cherubim and the palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

²¹As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and the front of the sanctuary had the same appearance.

²²The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls were of wood. And he said unto me, This is the table which is before Jehovah.

²³And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

²⁴And the doors had two leaves, two turning-leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

²⁵And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, as there were made upon the walls; and there was a wooden portal in front of the porch without,

²⁶and closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch and the side chambers of the house and the portals.

Ezekiel 42

¹And he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the cells that were over against the separate place and which were over against the building, toward the north,

²before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,

³over against the twenty cubits that pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement that pertained to the outer court; there was gallery against gallery in the third story;

⁴and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, and a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.

⁵And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.

⁶For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore the third story was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.

⁷And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:

⁸for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.

⁹And under these cells was the entry from the east, as one goeth into them from the outer court.

¹⁰In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;

¹¹and a passage before them, like the appearance of the cells that were toward the north, according to their length, according to their breadth and all their goings out, and according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

¹²And according to the doors of the cells that were toward the south there was a door at the head of the way, the way directly before the corresponding wall toward the east as one entereth into them.

¹³And he said unto me, The north cells and the south cells, which are before the separate place, they are holy cells, where the priests that come near unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, both the oblation and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering: for the place is holy.

¹⁴When the priests enter in, they shall not go forth from the sanctuary into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which is for the people.

¹⁵And when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose front was toward the east, and measured the enclosure round about.

¹⁶He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.

¹⁷He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.

¹⁸He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.

¹⁹He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.

²⁰He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall round about, five hundred long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.