1 Depois disso, o homem me levou ao santuário do templo. Mediu as paredes de cada lado de sua porta,*41.1a Conforme a Septuaginta; o significado do hebraico é incerto. e tinham 3 metros*41.1b Em hebraico, 6 côvados; também em 41.3,5. de espessura. 2 A entrada tinha 5 metros*41.2a Em hebraico, 10 côvados. de largura, e as paredes de cada lado tinham 2,5 metros*41.2b Em hebraico, 5 côvados; também em 41.9,11. de comprimento. O santuário propriamente dito tinha 20 metros de comprimento e 10 metros de largura.*41.2c Em hebraico, 40 côvados de comprimento e 20 côvados de largura.

3 Então ele passou do santuário para a sala interna. Mediu as paredes de cada lado de sua entrada, e tinham 1 metro*41.3a Em hebraico, 2 côvados. de espessura. A entrada tinha 3 metros de largura, e as paredes de cada lado da entrada tinham 3,5 metros de comprimento.*41.3b Em hebraico, 7 côvados. 4 A sala interna do santuário tinha 10 metros*41.4 Em hebraico, 20 côvados; também em 41.4b,10. de comprimento e 10 metros de largura. Ele me disse: "Este é o lugar santíssimo".

5 Então ele mediu a parede do templo, e tinha 3 metros de espessura. Junto à parte externa da parede havia uma fileira de salas; cada sala tinha 2 metros*41.5 Em hebraico, 4 côvados. de largura. 6 Essas salas laterais ficavam em três andares, uma acima da outra, e havia trinta salas em cada andar. Os pontos de sustentação das salas laterais ficavam apoiados em saliências externas na parede do templo; não se estendiam para dentro da parede. 7 Cada andar era mais largo que o andar abaixo, acompanhando a inclinação da parede do templo. Uma escada subia do andar inferior para os andares do meio e de cima.

8 Vi que o templo era construído sobre uma plataforma que servia de base para as salas laterais. Essa plataforma tinha 3 metros de altura.*41.8 Em hebraico, 1 vara, 6 côvados. 9 A parede externa das salas laterais do templo tinha 2,5 metros espessura. Havia, portanto, uma área aberta entre essas salas laterais 10 e a fileira de salas junto à parede externa do pátio interno. Essa área aberta tinha 10 metros de largura e se estendia ao redor de todo o templo. 11 Duas portas nas salas laterais davam para a área aberta da plataforma, que tinha 2,5 metros de largura. Uma porta ficava voltada para o norte, e a outra, para o sul.

12 Havia um edifício grande a oeste, voltado para o pátio do templo. Tinha 35 metros de largura e 45 metros de comprimento, e suas paredes tinham 2,5 metros de espessura.*41.12 Em hebraico, 70 côvados de largura e 90 côvados de comprimento, e suas paredes tinham 5 côvados de espessura. 13 Então o homem mediu o templo, e tinha 50 metros*41.13 Em hebraico, 100 côvados; também em 41.13b,14.15. de comprimento. O pátio ao redor do edifício, incluindo suas paredes, tinha mais 50 metros de comprimento. 14 O pátio interno do lado leste do templo tinha 50 metros de largura. 15 O edifício a oeste, incluindo suas duas paredes, também tinha 50 metros de largura.

O santuário, a sala interna e o pórtico do templo 16 eram todos revestidos de madeira, assim como as armações das janelas embutidas. As paredes internas eram revestidas de madeira acima e abaixo das janelas. 17 O espaço acima da porta que dava para a sala interna e suas paredes internas e externas também eram revestidos de madeira. 18 Todas as paredes eram enfeitadas com entalhes de querubins, cada um com dois rostos, alternados com entalhes de palmeiras. 19 Um dos rostos do querubim, o rosto de homem, ficava voltado para a palmeira de um lado. O outro rosto, o de leão forte, ficava voltado para a palmeira do outro lado. Havia figuras entalhadas ao redor de todo o templo, 20 desde o chão até o alto das paredes, inclusive na parede externa do santuário.

21 Na entrada do santuário havia colunas quadradas, e as colunas na entrada do lugar santíssimo eram semelhantes. 22 Havia um altar de madeira com 1,5 metros de altura e 1 metro de cada lado.*41.22 Em hebraico, 3 côvados de altura e 2 côvados de cada lado. Seus cantos, sua base e seus lados eram de madeira. O homem me disse: "Esta é a mesa que fica na presença do Senhor".

23 Tanto o santuário como o lugar santíssimo tinham portas duplas, 24 cada uma com duas folhas que se abriam para os dois lados. 25 As portas que davam para o santuário eram enfeitadas com entalhes de querubins e de palmeiras, assim como as paredes. E havia uma cobertura de madeira na frente do pórtico do templo. 26 Dos dois lados do pórtico havia janelas embutidas enfeitadas com entalhes de palmeiras. As salas laterais junto à parede externa também tinham coberturas.

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 thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.*41.2 door: or, entrance 3 Then went he 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 thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. 5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about 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 round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.*41.6 one…: Heb. side chamber over side chamber*41.6 thirty…: or, three and thirty times, or, foot*41.6 have hold: Heb. be holden 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 round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.*41.7 there…: Heb. it was made broader, and went round 8 I saw also the height of the house round about: 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 wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;*41.15 galleries: or, several walks, or, walks with pillars 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;*41.16 cieled…: Heb. cieling of wood*41.16 and from…: or, and the ground unto the windows 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.*41.17 measure: Heb. measures 18 And it was made with cherubims 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 toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims 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.*41.21 posts: Heb. post 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto 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 apiece, 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, cherubims and palm trees, like 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.