The Temple’s Chambers
1 Then he led me out into ch. 40:17the outer court, ch. 40:20toward the north, and he brought me to ch. 40:17the chambers that were opposite ver. 10, 13;ch. 41:12,13the separate yard and opposite ch. 41:12,15the building on the north. 2 The length of the building whose door faced north was [ch. 41:13] a hundred cubits,42:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a long cubit (see 40:5) was about 21 inches or 53 centimeters and [ver. 8]the breadth fifty cubits. 3 Facing ch. 41:10the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ch. 40:17the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was [ver. 5; 41:15,16]gallery42:3 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 5 against gallery in three stories. 4 And [ch. 46:19] before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and [ver. 11]a hundred cubits long,42:4 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew and a way of one cubit and [ch. 46:19] their doors were on the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. 6 For 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. 7 And [ver. 10, 12] there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, [ver. 2]fifty cubits long. 8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ch. 41:1,21,23the nave42:8 Or temple were [ch. 41:13,14]a hundred cubits long. 9 Below these chambers was ch. 44:5;46:19an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.
10 In the thickness of [ver. 7] the wall of the court, on the south42:10 Septuagint; Hebrew east also, opposite [ver. 1] the yard and opposite [ver. 1] the building, there were See ch. 40:17chambers 11 with [ver. 4]a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits42:11 Hebrew and all their exits and arrangements and [ver. 4]doors, 12 as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before [See ver. 10above]the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.42:12 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
13 Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite [See ver. 10above] the yard are the holy chambers, ch. 40:46where the priests who approach the LordLev. 6:16,26;10:13;24:9shall eat the Num. 18:9most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—Num. 18:9the grain offering, ch. 40:39the sin offering, and ch. 40:39the guilt offering—for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court ch. 44:19;Lev. 6:11without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. ch. 44:19;Lev. 6:11They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people."
15 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by See ch. 43:1the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. 16 He measured the east side with [ch. 40:3]the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 17 He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 18 He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 19 Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had ch. 40:5a wall around it, [ch. 45:2;Rev. 21:16] 500 cubits long and [ch. 45:2;Rev. 21:16] 500 cubits broad, [ch. 22:26;43:12;44:23;48:15]to make a separation between the holy and the common.
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