Ezekiel 41

The Inner Temple

1 Then he brought me to the sanctuary, and he measured the side pillars: six *41:1 Each of these cubits equals about 21 in. or 53 cmcubits wide on each side was the width of the *41:1 As in LXX; MT tentside pillar. 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the *41:2 Lit shoulderssides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured *41:2 Lit its length,the length of the sanctuary, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits. 3 Then he went *41:3 I.e., of the inner sanctuaryinside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. 4 And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

5 Then he measured the wall of the *41:5 Lit house, and so throughout the chtemple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side. 6 The side chambers were in three stories,*41:6 Lit chamber upon chamberone above another, and *41:6 Lit thirty timesthirty in each story; and *41:6 Lit they were comingthe side chambers extended to the wall which stood on *41:6 Lit the inside of the side chamberstheir inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.7 And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the *41:7 Lit middlesecond story.8 I saw also that the house had a raised *41:8 Lit heightplatform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full *41:8 Lit reedrod of six *41:8 Or to the jointlong cubits in height.9 The *41:9 Lit widththickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple 10 and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side. 11 The *41:11 Lit doorwaydoorways of the side *41:11 Lit chamberchambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits *41:12 Lit widethick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

13 Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long. 14 Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate *41:14 Lit areaareas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building *41:15 Lit toalong the front of the separate area behind it, with a *41:15 Or passagewaygallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard. 16 The thresholds, the *41:16 Or framedlatticed windows, and the *41:16 Or passagewaysgalleries all around their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), 17 over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. 18 It was *41:18 Lit madecarved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces: 19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were *41:19 Lit madecarved on all the house all around. 20 From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were *41:20 Lit madecarved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.

21 The doorposts of the sanctuary were square; as for the front of the inner*41:21 Lit holy placesanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its *41:22 Lit lengthbase, and its *41:22 Lit wallssides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord." 23 The sanctuary and the inner*41:23 Lit holy placesanctuary each had a double door. 24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two *41:24 Or turningswinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 25 Also there were *41:25 Lit madecarved on them, on the doors of the main room, cherubim and palm trees like those *41:25 Lit madecarved on the walls; and there was a *41:25 Or canopy of wood overthreshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. 26 And there were*41:26 Or framedlatticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; the same were on the side chambers of the house and the *41:26 Or canopiesthresholds.