1 Depois disso, o homem me levou ao santuário do templo. Mediu as paredes de cada lado de sua porta, e tinham 3 metros de espessura. 2 A entrada tinha 5 metros de largura, e as paredes de cada lado tinham 2,5 metros de comprimento. O santuário propriamente dito tinha 20 metros de comprimento e 10 metros 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 de espessura. A entrada tinha 3 metros de largura, e as paredes de cada lado da entrada tinham 3,5 metros de comprimento. 4 A sala interna do santuário tinha 10 metros 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 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. 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. 13 Então o homem mediu o templo, e tinha 50 metros 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. 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 He brought me to the nave and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent. 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

3 Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. 4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave. He said to me, "This is the most holy place."

5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. 6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported and not penetrate the wall of the house. 7 The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. 10 Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side. 11 The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; 14 also the width of the face of the temple, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court, 16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), 17 to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. 18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, 19 so that there was the face of a man 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 like this through all the house all around. 20 Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

21 The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple. 22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before Yahweh." 23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other. 25 There were made on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. 26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were arranged.