Sanctuary and Temple
1 And he brought me to the temple sanctuary,Or "main room" (of the temple of Jerusalem); "great hall" (JPS); "outer sanctuary" (NIV); word can refer to surrounding courts and halls; HALOT 245. and he measured the pilasters, six cubitsThat is, 10.5 feet wide on each side;Literally "six cubits wide from here and six cubits wide from here" this was the width of the tent.Or "of the jambs"2 And the width of the doorway was ten cubits,That is, 17.5 feet and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side,Literally "was five cubits from here and five cubits from here"; five cubits = 8.75 feet and he measured itsThat is, the outer sanctuary length as forty cubits,That is, 70 feet and its width was twenty cubits.That is, 35 feet3 And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubitsThat is, 3.5 feet and the doorway as six cubitsThat is, 10.5 feet and the width of the doorway seven cubits.That is, 12.25 feet4 And he measured its length as twenty cubitsThat is, 35 feet and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, "This is the most holy place.Literally "the holy of the holies"
5 And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits,That is, 10.5 feet and the width of the side room as four cubitsThat is, 7 feet all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall.Literally "all around, all around for the temple all around"6 And the side rooms were side by sideLiterally "were side room to side room" in three stories and a total of thirty rooms,Literally "times" and there were offsetsMeaning of word is uncertain in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, all the way aroundLiterally "all around, all around" to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple. 7 And each level widened, and it went aroundOr "was surrounded" upwardLiterally "to above, to above" to the side rooms for the structure that surroundsOr "goes around" the temple upwardLiterally "to above, to above" all the way around,Literally "all around, all around" therefore the width increased to the temple upward,Literally "to above" and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story.
8 And I saw for the temple a platform all the way aroundLiterally "all around, all around" the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.That is, 10.5 feet9 The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits,That is, 8.75 feet and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple 10 and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubitsThat is, 35 feet all around the temple, all the way aroundLiterally "all around, all around" it. 11 And the doorway of the side room facedLiterally "was to" the open area; one doorway facedLiterally "was to" the north,Literally "the way of the north" and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubitsThat is, 8.75 feet all around.Literally "all around, all around"12 And the building that facedLiterally "was to the front of" the courtyard was toward the west,Literally "wasto the side of the way of the sea/west" and its width was seventy cubits,That is, 122.5 feet and the wall of the building was five cubitsThat is, 8.25 feet wide all the way around,Literally "all around, all around" and its length was ninety cubits.That is, 157.5 feet13 And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits,That is, 175 feet and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits.That is, 175 feet14 And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits.That is, 175 feet15 And he measured the length of the building facing the courtyardLiterally "to the front of the courtyard" at the rearLiterally "which was on behind her/it" and its galleries, a hundred cubitsThat is, 175 feet on each side,Literally "from here and from here" and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard, 16 the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around,Literally "all around, all around" and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered. 17 AboveLiterally "On from on" the doorway and up to the inner templeOr "sanctuary" and on the outside, and on all of the wall all the way aroundLiterally "all around, all around" in the inner and in the outer areas were patterns,Literally "measurements"18 and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and the cherub had two faces.Literally "two faces were for the cherub"19 And the face of a human was towardLiterally "was to" the palm tree image on the one side,Literally "from here" and the face of a fierce strong lion facedLiterally "was to" the palm tree image on the other side;Literally "from here" this work was executedLiterally "being made" for the entire temple all the way around.Literally "all around, all around"20 From the ground up to aboveLiterally "up to form on" the doorway,Or "entrance" the cherubim and the palm tree images were made,Or "being made" and also the outer wall of the temple.
21 As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and beforeLiterally "in the front of" the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of 22 a wooden altarLiterally "the altar made of wood" that was three cubitsThat is, 5.25 feet high, and its length was two cubits,That is, 3.5 feet and its cornersHebrew "corner" for it and its length and its walls were of wood. And he spoke to me, "This is the table that is beforeLiterally "to the face of" Yahweh." 23 And the two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary. 24 And two leavesThat is, two swinging leaves for each door of a door were for each of the doors, two hinged leaves of a door: two were for the first door, and two leaves of a door were for the other door. 25 And cherubim were madeOr "carved" on them, that is, on the doors of the temple and palm tree images like the ones prepared for the walls;Literally "like which they were made for the walls" and an overhang of wood was on the surface of the porticos on the outside. 26 And narrow windows and palm tree images were on either side,Literally "were from here and from here" and on the side walls of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple and theirLiterally "the" overhang.
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