1 Então o homem me levou ao pátio do templo, passando pela porta norte. Entramos no pátio externo e chegamos a um edifício com salas junto à parede do pátio interno. 2 Esse edifício, cuja entrada dava para o norte, tinha 50 metros de comprimento e 25 metros de largura. 3 Um conjunto de salas dava para o espaço do pátio interno, que tinha 10 metros de largura. Outro conjunto de salas dava para a calçada do pátio externo. Os dois conjuntos tinham três andares e ficavam um de frente para o outro. 4 Entre os dois conjuntos de salas havia uma passagem com 5 metros de largura. Estendia-se ao longo dos 50 metros do edifício, e todas as portas davam para o norte. 5 Cada um dos dois andares superiores com salas era mais estreito que o andar abaixo, pois nos andares superiores precisava haver espaço para passagens na frente de cada um. 6 Uma vez que havia três andares e eles não tinham colunas de sustentação como os pátios, cada andar superior era recuado em relação ao andar abaixo. 7 Havia uma parede externa que servia de divisória entre as salas e o pátio externo e que tinha 25 metros de comprimento. 8 Essa parede acrescentava comprimento ao conjunto externo de salas, que se estendia por apenas 25 metros, enquanto o conjunto interno, cujas salas eram voltadas para o templo, tinha 50 metros de comprimento. 9 Havia uma entrada pelo lado leste do pátio externo para essas salas.

10 Do lado sul do templo havia dois conjuntos de salas ao sul do pátio interno, entre o templo e o pátio externo. A disposição dessas salas era semelhante à das salas do lado norte. 11 Havia uma passagem entre os dois conjuntos de salas, como do lado norte do templo. Esse conjunto de salas tinha o mesmo comprimento do outro, e também as mesmas entradas e portas. As dimensões deles eram idênticas. 12 Havia, portanto, uma entrada na parede voltada para o conjunto interno de salas e outra na extremidade leste da passagem interior.

13 Então o homem me disse: "Estas salas ao norte e ao sul que dão para o pátio do templo são santas. Aqui os sacerdotes que oferecem sacrifícios ao Senhor comerão as ofertas santíssimas. E, porque as salas são santas, serão usadas para guardar as ofertas sagradas: as ofertas de cereal, as ofertas pelo pecado e as ofertas pela culpa. 14 Quando os sacerdotes saírem do santuário, não irão diretamente para o pátio externo. Primeiro, removerão as roupas que usaram enquanto serviam no templo, pois elas são santas. Vestirão outras roupas antes de entrar nas dependências abertas para o povo".

15 Quando o homem terminou de medir a área interna do templo, ele me levou para fora pela porta leste a fim de medir toda a área ao redor. 16 Mediu o lado leste com a vara de medir, e tinha 250 metros de comprimento. 17 Mediu o lado norte, e também tinha 250 metros. 18 O lado sul tinha 250 metros, 19 e o lado oeste também tinha 250 metros. 20 Portanto, a área tinha 250 metros de cada lado e um muro ao redor para separar o santo do comum.

1 Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north. 2 Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits. 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the three stories. 4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, was fifty cubits long. 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, those facing the temple were one hundred cubits. 9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms. 11 The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north. Their length and width were the same. All their exits had the same arrangement and doors. 12 Like the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

13 Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, which are opposite the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court until they lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments, and shall approach that which is for the people."

15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around. 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. 17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around. 18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred cubits, and the width five hundred cubits, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.