1 Depois disto, me fez sair para o átrio exterior, para o norte; e me levou às celas que estavam para o norte, opostas ao edifício na área separada, edifício que olha para o norte, 2 do comprimento de cem côvados, com portas que davam para o norte; e a largura era de cinquenta côvados. 3 Em frente dos vinte côvados que pertenciam ao átrio interior, defronte do pavimento que pertencia ao átrio exterior, havia galeria contra galeria em três andares. 4 Diante das câmaras havia um passeio de dez côvados de largura, do lado de dentro, e cem de comprimento; e as suas entradas eram para o lado norte. 5 As câmaras superiores eram mais estreitas; porque as galerias tiravam mais espaço destas do que das de baixo e das do meio do edifício. 6 Porque elas eram de três andares e não tinham colunas como as colunas dos átrios; por isso, as superiores eram mais estreitas do que as de baixo e as do meio. 7 O muro que estava por fora, defronte das câmaras, no caminho do átrio exterior, diante das câmaras, tinha cinquenta côvados de comprimento. 8 Pois o comprimento das câmaras, que estavam no átrio exterior, era de cinquenta côvados; e eis que defronte do templo havia cem côvados. 9 Da parte de baixo destas câmaras, estava a entrada do lado do oriente, quando se entra nelas pelo átrio exterior.

10 Do muro do átrio para o oriente, diante do edifício na área separada, havia também celas 11 e um passeio; tinham a feição das celas que olhavam para o norte, e o mesmo comprimento, e a mesma largura, e ainda as mesmas saídas, e o mesmo arranjo; como eram as suas entradas, 12 assim eram as das celas que olhavam para o sul, no princípio do caminho, a saber, o caminho bem defronte do muro para o oriente, para quem por elas entra.

13 Então, o homem me disse: As câmaras do norte e as câmaras do sul, que estão diante da área separada, são câmaras santas, em que os sacerdotes, que se chegam ao Senhor, comerão e onde depositarão as coisas santíssimas, isto é, as ofertas de manjares e as pelo pecado e pela culpa; porque o lugar é santo. 14 Quando os sacerdotes entrarem, não sairão do santuário para o átrio exterior, mas porão ali as vestiduras com que ministraram, porque elas são santas; usarão outras vestiduras e assim se aproximarão do lugar destinado ao povo.

15 Acabando ele de medir o templo interior, ele me fez sair pela porta que olha para o oriente; e mediu em redor. 16 Mediu o lado oriental com a cana de medir: quinhentas canas ao redor. 17 Mediu o lado norte: quinhentas canas ao redor. 18 Mediu também o lado sul: quinhentas canas. 19 Voltou-se para o lado ocidental e mediu quinhentas canas. 20 Mediu pelos quatro lados; havia um muro em redor, de quinhentas canas de comprimento e quinhentas de largura, para fazer separação entre o santo e o profano.

1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building, toward the north,

2 even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,

3 over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories.

4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

6 For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground.

7 And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.

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

10 In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers,

11 with a way before them; like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they, with all their goings out, and according to their fashions; and as their doors,

12 so were also the doors of the chambers that were toward the south, there was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall, toward the way from the east, as one entereth into them.

13 Then said he unto me: 'The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering; for the place is holy.

14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place 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 pertaineth to the people.'

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

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

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

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

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

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