1Then the man led me north into the outer courtyard of the temple. He brought me to the rooms that were opposite the inner courtyard. They were opposite the outer wall of the temple on the north side.2The rooms were in a building north of the temple. The building had a door that faced north. It was 60 metres long. It was 30 metres wide.3One row of rooms was next to the inner courtyard. The other row was opposite the pavement of the outer courtyard. Each room was 12 metres long. Walkways in front of each row faced each other on all three floors.4Between the two rows was an inner pavement. It was 6 metres wide and 60 metres long. Each of the rooms had a door on the north side.5The rooms on the top floor were narrower than the others. The walkways took up more space from these rooms. The walkways took up less space from the rooms on the other two floors.6The courtyards had pillars. But the rooms on the top floor didn’t. So their floor space was smaller than the space in the rooms on the other floors.7The building had an outer wall. It was even with the outer row of rooms and with the outer courtyard. The wall continued east of the outer row for 30 metres.8So there were two rows of rooms. The row next to the outer courtyard was 30 metres long. The one closest to the temple was 60 metres long.9The first floor of the building had an entrance on the east side. It led to the outer courtyard.10There were also two rows of rooms in a building next to the south side of the inner courtyard. The building was opposite the south wall of the outer courtyard.11Between the two rows was an inner pavement. The rooms were like the ones in the north building. They were as long and wide as the rooms on the north. The doorways of the rooms on the south were like the ones on the north.12People entered the south rooms through the doorway at the east end of the inner pavement. The south wall continued east of the outer row of rooms.13The man said to me, ‘The north and south rooms face the inner courtyard. They are the priests’ rooms. That is where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the very holy offerings. They will also store them there. That includes the grain offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings. This place is holy.14The priests who enter these holy rooms must leave behind the clothes they served in. Then they can go into the outer courtyard. The clothes they served in are holy. So the priests must put other clothes on. They have to do that before they go near the places where other people go.’15The man finished measuring what was inside the temple area. Then he led me out through the east gate. He measured all around the area.16He measured the east side with his measuring rod. It was 300 metres long.17He measured the north side. It was 300 metres long.18He measured the south side. It was 300 metres long.19Finally, he turned and measured the west side. It was 300 metres long.20So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it. The wall was 300 metres long and 300 metres wide. It separated what was holy from what was not.
Ezekiel 42
English Standard Version
The Temple’s Chambers
1Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north. (Eze 40:17; Eze 40:20; Eze 41:12; Eze 41:15; Eze 42:10; Eze 42:13)2The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits,[1] and the breadth fifty cubits. (Eze 41:13; Eze 42:8)3Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery[2] against gallery in three stories. (Eze 40:17; Eze 41:10; Eze 41:15; Eze 42:5)4And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long,[3] and their doors were on the north. (Eze 42:11; Eze 46:19)5Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.6For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.7And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long. (Eze 42:2; Eze 42:10; Eze 42:12)8For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave[4] were a hundred cubits long. (Eze 41:1; Eze 41:13; Eze 41:21; Eze 41:23)9Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. (Eze 44:5; Eze 46:19)10In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south[5] also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers (Eze 40:17; Eze 42:1; Eze 42:7)11with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits[6] and arrangements and doors, (Eze 42:4)12as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.[7] (Eze 42:10)13Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy. (Le 6:16; Le 6:26; Le 10:13; Le 24:9; Nu 18:9; Eze 40:39; Eze 40:46; Eze 42:10)14When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.” (Le 6:11; Eze 44:19)15Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. (Eze 43:1)16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. (Eze 40:3)17He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.18He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.19Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.20He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common. (Eze 22:26; Eze 40:5; Eze 43:12; Eze 44:23; Eze 45:2; Eze 48:15; Re 21:16)