1 Depois, o homem me levou ao salão central, o Lugar Santo.

Ele mediu a passagem que dava para esse salão, e tinha três metros de comprimento 2 por cinco de largura, com paredes de dois metros e meio de cada lado. E mediu o salão, que tinha vinte metros de comprimento por dez de largura.

3 Em seguida, ele foi até o último salão. Mediu a passagem que dava para ele, e tinha um metro de comprimento por três de largura; dos dois lados havia paredes de três metros e meio de grossura. 4 Também mediu o salão; era quadrado, com dez metros de cada lado, e ficava adiante do salão central. Aí o homem me disse:

— Este é o Lugar Santíssimo.

5 O homem mediu a grossura da parede interna do Templo, e era de três metros. Em toda a volta do Templo havia uma porção de pequenos cômodos encostados na parede, medindo dois metros de largura cada um. 6 Esses cômodos estavam em três andares, trinta cômodos em cada andar. A parede de fora do Templo ia ficando mais estreita em cada andar, e assim os cômodos estavam encostados na parede, mas não eram presos nela. 7 Portanto, as paredes do Templo, vistas de fora, pareciam ter a mesma grossura de cima abaixo. Havia duas escadarias largas do lado de fora dos cômodos que estavam construídos encostados na parede do Templo, em toda a sua volta. Assim, podia-se subir do térreo ao andar do meio e ao andar de cima. 8-11 A parede de fora desses cômodos tinha dois metros e meio de grossura. Havia uma porta que dava para os cômodos do lado norte do Templo, e uma que dava para os cômodos do lado sul. Vi que em volta do Templo havia um terraço que media dois metros e meio de largura. Esse terraço estava a três metros acima do chão e ficava no mesmo nível do alicerce dos cômodos que estavam ao lado das paredes do Templo. Em volta do Templo, entre o terraço e os edifícios usados pelos sacerdotes, havia um espaço livre de dez metros de largura.

12 Do lado oeste, no fim do espaço livre, havia um edifício que dava para o Templo. Tinha trinta e cinco metros de um lado e quarenta e cinco do outro. As suas paredes eram de dois metros e meio de grossura em toda a volta.

13 O homem mediu o lado de fora do Templo: tinha cinquenta metros de comprimento. Do fundo do Templo, atravessando o pátio até a ponta do edifício do lado oeste, a distância também era de cinquenta metros. 14 A largura da frente do Templo, junto com o espaço livre dos dois lados, era de cinquenta metros. 15 O homem mediu o comprimento do edifício que ficava do lado oeste do Templo, no fim do espaço livre, e também os seus corredores de cada lado, e esse comprimento também era de cinquenta metros.

O salão de entrada do Templo, o Lugar Santo e o Lugar Santíssimo 16 eram todos forrados de madeira, desde o chão até as janelas. Essas janelas podiam ser cobertas. 17 Por dentro, as paredes do Templo, até o alto das portas, estavam todas cobertas de figuras entalhadas 18 de palmeiras e de animais com asas . Vinha primeiro uma palmeira e depois um animal e continuava assim em toda a volta. Cada animal tinha duas caras: 19 uma cara de homem, virada para a palmeira de um lado, e uma cara de leão, virada para a palmeira do outro lado. Era assim em toda a volta da parede, 20 desde o chão até o alto das portas. 21 Os batentes do Lugar Santo eram quadrados.

Na frente da entrada do Lugar Santíssimo havia uma coisa que parecia 22 um altar de madeira. Tinha um metro e meio de altura por um metro de largura. Os cantos, a base e os lados eram de madeira. O homem me disse:

— Esta é a mesa que fica na presença de Deus, o Senhor.

23 Havia uma porta na ponta da passagem que dava para o Lugar Santo, e outra porta na ponta da passagem que dava para o Lugar Santíssimo. 24 Eram portas de duas folhas, de abrir no meio. 25 Havia figuras de palmeiras e de animais com asas entalhadas nas portas do Lugar Santo, como havia nas paredes. 26 Nos lados do Lugar Santo havia janelas, e as paredes eram decoradas com figuras de palmeiras.

1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then he went inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

4 So he measured the length of it twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

5 Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round the house on every side.

6 And the side-chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side-chambers around, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side-chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward around the house; therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

8 I saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that were within.

10 And between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

11 And the doors of the side-chambers were towards the place that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits around.

12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end towards the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, a hundred cubits long;

14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place towards the east, a hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

17 To that above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall around within and without, by measure.

18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees, so that a palm-tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

19 So that the face of a man was towards the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm-tree on the other side: it was made through all the house around.

20 From the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.

22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before the LORD.

23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 And the doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

26 And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side-chambers of the house, and thick planks.