1 Então ele me levou ao templo e mediu os pilares, três metros de largura de um lado e três metros de largura do outro, que era a largura do tabernáculo. 2 A largura da entrada era de cinco metros, e as paredes laterais tinham dois metros e meio, uma de cada lado. Também mediu a profundidade da nave, e deu vinte metros; mediu a largura, e deu dez metros. 3 Entrou na parte interior, mediu o pilar da entrada, e deu um metro; mediu a largura da entrada, e deu três metros. 4 Também mediu o seu comprimento, e deu dez metros; mediu a largura, e deu dez metros, na parte frontal da nave. Então ele me disse:

— Este é o Santo dos Santos.

5 Depois ele mediu a parede do templo: três metros de espessura. A largura de cada câmara lateral era de dois metros. Essas câmaras ficavam em toda a volta do templo. 6 As câmaras laterais estavam em três andares, câmara sobre câmara, trinta em cada andar. E havia reentrâncias na parede do templo ao redor, para as câmaras laterais, para que as vigas se apoiassem nelas e não fossem introduzidas na parede do templo. 7 As câmaras laterais aumentavam em largura de andar para andar, correspondendo às reentrâncias do templo de andar em andar ao redor; por isso o templo era mais largo em cima. Assim, se subia do andar inferior para o superior, passando pelo andar do meio.

8 E vi um pavimento elevado ao redor do templo; eram os alicerces das câmaras laterais de três metros de altura. 9 A grossura da parede externa das câmaras laterais era de dois metros e meio. A área aberta entre as câmaras laterais do templo 10 e as outras câmaras tinha dez metros de largura por todo o redor do templo. 11 As entradas das câmaras laterais estavam voltadas para a área aberta: uma entrada para o norte e outra para o sul; a largura da área que sobrava era de dois metros e meio ao redor.

12 O edifício que estava numa área separada, do lado oeste, tinha a largura de trinta e cinco metros. A parede do edifício tinha dois metros e meio de espessura ao redor, e o seu comprimento era de quarenta e cinco metros.

13 Então ele mediu o templo: cinquenta metros de comprimento. A área separada, o edifício e as suas paredes também tinham cinquenta metros de comprimento. 14 A largura da frente do templo e da área separada, do lado oeste, era de cinquenta metros. 15 Também mediu o comprimento do edifício, que estava na área separada e por detrás do templo, e as suas galerias em cada lado, e deu cinquenta metros.

O templo propriamente dito, o Santíssimo, o vestíbulo do átrio, 16 os umbrais, as janelas estreitas e as galerias ao redor dos três, diante do umbral, estavam cobertos de madeira ao redor, e isto desde o chão até as janelas, que estavam cobertas. 17 No espaço em cima da porta, e até o templo de dentro e de fora, e em toda a parede ao redor, por dentro e por fora, havia obras de escultura, 18 a saber, querubins e palmeiras. Entre um querubim e outro querubim havia uma palmeira. Cada querubim tinha dois rostos: 19 um rosto humano olhava para a palmeira de um lado, e um rosto de leão olhava para a palmeira do outro lado. Era assim por todo o templo ao redor. 20 Desde o chão até acima da entrada havia querubins e palmeiras, até mesmo pela parede do templo.

21 Os batentes do templo eram quadrados, e a entrada do Santo dos Santos tinha a mesma aparência.

22 O altar de madeira tinha um metro e meio de altura, e o seu comprimento era de um metro. Os seus cantos, a sua base e os seus lados eram de madeira. O homem me disse:

— Esta é a mesa que está diante do Senhor.

23 Tanto o templo quanto o Santo dos Santos tinham duas portas. 24 Havia duas folhas para as portas, duas folhas dobráveis; duas para cada porta. 25 Nelas, isto é, nas portas do templo, havia querubins e palmeiras, como havia nas paredes. Havia também uma cobertura feita de madeira na frente do vestíbulo por fora. 26 E havia janelas estreitas e palmeiras em ambos os lados do vestíbulo, bem como nas câmaras laterais do templo e na cobertura de madeira.

1 The man brought me into the Holy Place in the Temple and measured the recessed walls. They were ten and one half feet wide on each side.2 The entrance was seventeen and one half feet wide, and on each side of the entrance the walls were nine feet wide. Then he measured the length of the holy place. It was seventy feet long and thirty-five feet wide.3 He went inside and measured the passageway. It was three and one half feet thick. The entrance was ten and one half feet high and twelve feet wide.4 He measured the room at the end of the holy place. It was thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The man said: »This is the Most Holy Place Holy of Holies.«5 Next, the man measured the Temple wall. It was ten and one half feet wide, and each side room around the Temple was seven feet.6 The rooms were arranged on three different stories. There were thirty rooms on each story. These rooms had supports all the way around the Temple wall, but these supports were not fastened to the Temple wall.7 The side rooms grew wider all the way around as they went up, story after story. The surrounding structure went from story to story all around the Temple. The structure grew wider as it went higher. A stairway went from the first story through the second story to the third story.8 I also saw a raised base all around the Temple. This base was the foundation for the side rooms. It measured the full length of the measuring rod, ten and one half feet.9 The outer wall of the side rooms was nine feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms connected to the Temple10 and the priests' rooms. It was thirty-five feet wide and went all around the Temple.11 The doors in the side rooms were entrances into the open area. There was one door to the north and another to the south. The base of the open area was nine feet wide all the way around.12 At the far end of the open area, on the west side of the temple, was a building one hundred twenty-two and one-half feet wide. The wall of the building was nine feet thick all the way around, and it was one hundred fifty seven and one half feet long.13 The man measured the Temple. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was one hundred and seventy-five feet long.14 The eastern side of the Temple, including the open area, was also one hundred and seventy-five feet wide.15 He also measured the length of the building facing the courtyard on the west side along with its corridors on both sides. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The holy place and the Most Holy Place were paneled.16 The doorposts, the small windows, and the corridors of all three stories were paneled. The walls, from the floor up to the windows, were paneled.17 In the space above the door to the Most Holy Place and on the walls all around it,18 there were pictures of cherubim angels and palm trees. Palm trees were positioned between each of the angels, and each angel had two faces:19 the face of a man, which was turned toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a lion, which was turned toward a palm tree on the other side. These pictures were carved all around the Temple.20 Pictures of cherubim angels and palm trees were carved on the walls from the floor to the space above the door.21 The doorframes in the Holy Place were square. In front of the Most Holy Place was something similar.22 There was a wooden altar. It was five feet high and three and one half feet wide. Its corners, its base, and its sides were made of wood. Then the man told me: This is the table that is in the presence of Jehovah.23 The Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had two doors.24 Each of the doors were double doors that swung open.25 Pictures of cherubim angels and palm trees were carved on the doors of the Holy Place as on the walls. There was a wooden roof hanging over the outer entrance hall.26 There were small windows and palm trees on both sides of the entrance hall, on the side rooms of the Temple, and on the roofs.