Ezekiel 42

1 And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

Next the man sent me out to the outer courtyard on the north side, and he brought me to rooms in front of the outer courtyard and the northern outer wall.

2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

Those rooms were one hundred cubits along their front and fifty cubits in width.

3 Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

Some of those rooms faced the inner courtyard and were twenty cubits away from the sanctuary. There were three levels of rooms, and the ones above looked down on the ones below and were open to them, having a walkway. Some of the rooms looked out onto the outer courtyard.

4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

A passage ten cubits in width and one hundred cubits in length ran in front of the rooms. The rooms' doors were toward the north.

5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

But the upper halls were smaller, for the walkways took away from them more space than they did in the lowest and middle levels of the building.

6 For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

For the halls on the third story had no columns, unlike the courtyards, which did have columns. So the highest level's rooms were smaller in size compared to the rooms in the lowest and middle levels.

7 And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

The outside wall ran along the rooms toward the outer courtyard, the courtyard that was in front of the rooms. That wall was fifty cubits in length.

8 For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

The length of the rooms of the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and the rooms facing the sanctuary were one hundred cubits in length.

9 And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

There was an entrance to the lowest rooms from the east side, coming from the outer courtyard.

10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

Along the wall of the outer courtyard on the eastern side of the outer courtyard, in front of the sanctuary's inner courtyard, there were also rooms

11 And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

with a walkway in front of them. They were as the appearance of the rooms on the northern side. They had the same length and breadth and the same exits and arrangements and doors.

12 And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

On the south side were doors into rooms that were just the same as on the north side. A passage on the inside had a door at its head, and the passage opened into the various rooms. On the east side there was a doorway into the passage at one end.

13 And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.

Then the man said to me, “The northern rooms and the southern rooms that are in front of the outer courtyard are holy rooms where the priests who work nearest to Yahweh may eat the most holy food. They will put the most holy things there—the food offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for this is a holy place.

14 When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

When the priests enter there, they must not go out of the holy place to the outer court, without laying aside the clothes in which they served, since these are holy. So they must dress in other clothes before going near the people.”

15 And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

The man completed measuring the inner house and then took me out to the gate that faced the east and measured all the surrounding area there.

16 He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

He measured the east side with a measuring stick—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

17 And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

He measured the north side—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

18 And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

He also measured the south side—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

19 And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

He also turned and measured the west side—five hundred cubits with the measuring stick.

20 He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

He measured it on four sides. It had a wall around it that was five hundred cubits in length, and five hundred cubits in width, to separate the holy from that which is common.