1 Daarna het hy my uitgebring na die buitenste voorhof op die weg na die noorde toe; en hy het my gebring na die kamers wat teenoor die afgeslote ruimte en wat teenoor die bouwerk teen die noorde lê,

2 oor 'n lengte van honderd el, langs die noordelike ingang, en 'n breedte van vyftig el.

3 Teenoor die twintig el wat by die binneste voorhof behoort, en teenoor die plaveisel wat by die buitenste voorhof behoort, was galery teenoor galery in drie verdiepinge.

4 En voor die kamers was 'n gang van tien el breedte, na binnetoe, honderd el lank; en hulle deure was teen die noorde.

5 En die boonste kamers was korter, want die galerye het ruimte van hulle weggeneem in vergelyking met die onderstes en die middelstes in die bouwerk;

6 want hulle het drie verdiepinge gehad, maar geen pilare soos die pilare van die voorhowe nie; daarom is daar ruimte weggeneem in vergelyking met die onderstes en die middelstes, van die grond af.

7 En daar was 'n muur wat buitekant ewewydig met die kamers geloop het, na die buitenste voorhof toe, vooraan die kamers, vyftig el lank.

8 Want die lengte van die kamers wat na die buitenste voorhof lê, was vyftig el; en kyk, teenoor die tempel was honderd el.

9 En onder hierdie kamers was die ingang van die oostekant af as iemand na hulle toe ingaan uit die buitenste voorhof uit.

10 In die breedte van die muur van die voorhof, na die suide toe, vooraan die afgeslote ruimte en vooraan die bouwerk, was daar kamers,

11 met 'n weg voor hulle, soos die voorkoms van die kamers wat na die noorde toe lê, net so lank en so breed as hulle, en al die uitgange en inrigtinge soos by hulle. En soos hulle ingange,

12 so was ook die ingange van die kamers wat na die suide lê: 'n ingang by die begin van die weg, naamlik die weg voor die ooreenkomende muur, na die ooste toe, as 'n mens na hulle toe aankom.

13 Toe het hy vir my gesê: Die noordelike kamers en die suidelike kamers wat teenoor die afgeslote ruimte lê, hulle is die heilige kamers waar die priesters wat na die HERE nader kom, die hoogheilige gawes moet eet; daar moet hulle die hoogheilige gawes neersit: die spysoffer en die sondoffer en die skuldoffer, want die plek is heilig.

14 As die priesters ingaan, dan mag hulle nie uit die heiligdom uitgaan na die buitenste voorhof nie, maar daar moet hulle hul klere neersit waarin hulle diens gedoen het; want die is heilig; hulle moet ander klere aantrek en dan nader kom na die ruimte wat vir die volk bestem is.

15 En toe hy klaar was met die mate van die binneste huis, het hy my na die poort toe uitgebring waarvan die voorkant na die ooste lê, en dit gemeet al rondom.

16 Hy het die oostekant met die meetroede gemeet: vyf honderd roede, met die meetroede rondom.

17 Hy het die noordekant gemeet: vyf honderd roede, met die meetroede rondom.

18 Die suidekant het hy gemeet: vyf honderd roede, met die meetroede.

19 Hy het hom begewe na die westekant en gemeet: vyf honderd roede, met die meetroede.

20 Hy het dit aan vier kante gemeet; dit het 'n muur gehad al rondom; die lengte was vyf honderd en die breedte vyf honderd, om skeiding te maak tussen wat heilig en onheilig is.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.