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.

1 Depois conduziu-me para fora do templo, para a parte de trás, para o pátio interior, até às câmaras do norte do pátio do templo, e até um outro edifício. Este conjunto de estruturas tinha 58 metros de comprimento por 29 metros de largura.

3 As galerias de compartimentos que estavam por detrás desta construção, constituíam a parede do pátio. As câmaras distribuiam-se em três fileiras dando para o pátio exterior, de um lado, e tendo uma galeria de 11,5 metros que dava para o pátio interior, do outro lado.

4 Havia um passeio de 5,75 metros que corria entre a galeria de quartos e o edifício, com as portas do edifício dando para o norte.

5 As duas galerias superiores de compartimentos não eram tão largas como as de baixo, porque as passagens das galerias de cima eram mais largas.

6 E como estes edifícios não eram construídos com vigas, como os dos átrios exteriores, por isso os andares se iam estreitando um a um a partir do chão.

7 As galerias do norte, no caminho do átrio exterior, tinham 29 metros de comprimento - somente metade do comprimento da ala interior que estava em frente do pátio do templo, e que era de 58 metros de comprimento. Mas uma parede se estendia a partir da extremidade da ala mais curta, paralela à ala mais longa. E havia uma entrada, do pátio exterior para estes compartimentos, do oriente. No lado oposto do templo, uma construção similar, composta de duas unidades de conjuntos de galerias, se erguia no lado sul do pátio interior, entre o templo e pátio de fora, iguais uma à outra. Havia uma passagem entre as duas alas da construção, semelhante à da outra construção do outro lado do pátio - com o mesmo comprimento e a mesma largura, as mesmas saídas e portas - eram iguais uma à outra. E havia uma porta do pátio exterior, a oriente.

13 Então disse-me: Estas galerias de compartimentos, do norte e do sul, diante do pátio do templo, são santas; é aí que os sacerdotes que oferecem os sacrifícios ao Senhor deverão comer desses santos sacrifícios e armazenar os que devem ser guardados, tal como a ofertas de cereais, as ofertas pelo pecado e as de culpa; porque estes compartimentos são santos. Quando os sacerdotes deixarem este santo lugar - a nave do templo - deverão mudar de roupa antes de sairem para o pátio exterior. As vestimentas especiais com as quais administraram o serviço religiosos devem ser despidas, porque se trata de uma roupa sagrada. Deverão, pois, vestir outros fatos antes de entrar nas partes do edifício abertas ao público.

15 Quando acabou de fazer estas medições, levou-me para fora, pela porta oriental, para medir toda a área do templo. Constatou que tinha a forma de um quadrado, com 291,75 metros de lado, com uma parede toda em volta a separar a área sagrada da que era aberta ao público.