1 Depois o homem me levou ao santuário externo e mediu os batentes; a largura dos batentes era de três metros em cada lado.2 A entrada tinha cinco metros de largura, e as paredes salientes em cada lado tinham dois metros e meio de largura. Ele mediu também o santuário externo; e ele tinha vinte metros de comprimento e dez metros de largura.3 Depois entrou no santuário interno e mediu os batentes da entrada; cada um tinha um metro de largura. A entrada tinha três metros de largura, e as paredes salientes em cada lado dela tinham três metros e meio de largura.4 E ele mediu o comprimento do santuário interno; tinha dez metros, e sua largura era de dez metros até o fim do santuário externo. Ele me disse: "Este é o Lugar Santíssimo".5 Depois mediu a parede do templo; tinha três metros de espessura, e cada quarto lateral em torno do templo tinha dois metros de largura.6 Os quartos laterais, sobrepostos uns aos outros, ficavam em três andares, havendo trinta em cada andar. Havia saliências em torno de toda a parede do templo para servirem de pontos de apoio para os quartos laterais, para que não fossem incrustados na parede do templo.7 As paredes laterais em torno de todo o templo eram mais largas em cada andar superior. A estrutura em torno do templo foi construída em plataformas ascendentes, de modo que os quartos ficavam mais largos à medida que se subia. Uma escada subia do andar inferior até o andar superior, servindo também o andar do meio.8 Vi que ao redor de todo o templo fora construída uma base, formando o alicerce dos quartos laterais. Era do comprimento da vara de medir, ou seja, três metros.9 A parede externa dos quartos laterais era de dois metros e meio de espessura. A área aberta entre os quartos laterais do templo10 e os quartos dos sacerdotes era de dez metros de largura ao redor de todo o templo.11 Havia entradas para os quartos laterais a partir da área aberta, uma ao norte e outra ao sul; e a base vizinha à área aberta era de dois metros e meio ao redor de todo o templo.12 O prédio que ficara em frente do pátio do templo no lado oeste media trinta e cinco metros de largura. A parede do prédio tinha dois metros e meio de espessura em toda a sua volta, e o seu comprimento era de quarenta e cinco metros.13 Depois ele mediu o templo; e ele tinha cinqüenta metros de comprimento, e o pátio do templo e o prédio com suas paredes também tinham cinqüenta metros de comprimento.14 A largura do pátio do templo no lado oeste, inclusive a frente do templo, era de cinqüenta metros.15 A seguir ele mediu o comprimento do prédio que ficava em frente do pátio, na parte de trás do templo, inclusive suas galerias em cada lado; era de cinqüenta metros. O santuário externo, o santuário interno e o pórtico que dava para o pátio,16 bem como as soleiras, as janelas estreitas e as galerias em volta dos três, tudo o que estava do lado de fora, inclusive a soleira, fora revestido de madeira. O piso, a parede até a altura das janelas, e as janelas estavam revestidas.17 No espaço acima do lado exterior da entrada do santuário interno e nas paredes, a intervalos regulares, em volta de todo o santuário interior e exterior,18 havia querubins e tamareiras em relevo. As tamareiras alternavam com os querubins. Cada querubim tinha dois rostos:19 o rosto de um homem virado para a tamareira de um dos lados, e o rosto de um leão virado para a tamareira do outro lado. Estavam em relevo ao redor do templo inteiro.20 Desde o chão até a área acima da entrada, havia querubins e tamareiras em relevo na parede do santuário exterior.21 O santuário exterior tinha batentes retangulares, e o que ficava em frente do Lugar Santíssimo era semelhante.22 Havia um altar de madeira com um metro e meio de altura e um metro em cada lado; seus cantos, sua base e seus lados eram de madeira. O homem me disse: "Esta é a mesa que fica diante do Senhor".23 Tanto o santuário externo quanto o Lugar Santíssimo tinham portas duplas.24 Cada porta tinha duas folhas; duas folhas articuladas para cada porta.25 E nas portas do santuário externo havia querubins e tamareiras esculpidos em relevo, como os que havia nas paredes, e havia também uma saliência de madeira na frente do pórtico.26 Nas paredes laterais do pórtico havia janelas estreitas com tamareiras em relevo em cada lado. Os quartos laterais do templo também tinham saliências.

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.