1 Seguidamente, levou-me à nave do templo, a parte mais espaçosa, e mediu os seus pilares. Eram quadrados com 3 metros de lado. 2 A largura da entrada era de 5 metros e tinha 2,5 metros de fundo. A nave, só por si, tinha 20 metros de comprimento e 10 metros de largura.

3 Depois entrou no compartimento ao fundo da nave e mediu os pilares de entrada que eram de 1 metro de espessura. A largura da entrada desse quarto era de 3 metros, com um vestíbulo de 3,5 metros de fundo por detrás. 4 Esse compartimento era quadrado e tinha 10 metros de lado. "Este", disse-me ele, "é o lugar santíssimo!"

5 Mediu a parede do templo e constatou que tinha uma espessura de 3 metros com uma série de câmaras laterais em toda a volta. Cada uma dessas câmaras tinha 2 metros de largura. 6 Estas câmaras estavam construídas em três fileiras que se sobrepunham; cada fileira tinha trinta câmaras; toda a estrutura estava suportada por vigas que não estavam presas à parede do templo. 7 Cada fileira era mais larga do que a que estava por baixo, correspondendo à estrutura do templo em altura. Havia uma escada de acesso de andar para andar.

8 Notei que o templo estava construído sobre uma plataforma e que a última fila de câmaras se sobrepunha 3 metros sobre essa plataforma. 9 A parede exterior dessas câmaras tinha 2,5 metros de espessura e havia um espaço vazio entre as câmaras laterais do templo. 10 De ambos os lados do templo, 10 metros afastada da plataforma, havia uma fila de câmaras, em baixo, no pátio interior. 11 Duas portas abriam-se, da fileira de câmaras sobre a plataforma que tinha 2,5 metros de largura, uma delas virada para o norte e a outra para o sul.

12 Havia um grande edifício que se erguia a ocidente, diante do átrio do templo, e que media 35 metros de largura por 45 metros de comprimento. As paredes tinham 2,5 metros de espessura.

13 Então mediu o templo e também os espaços de separação em volta; era uma área com 50 metros quadrados. 14 O pátio interior, a oriente do templo, tinha também 50 metros de largo. 15 Igual a este era também o edifício a ocidente do templo, incluindo as suas duas paredes.

A nave do templo, o lugar santíssimo e o átrio de entrada 16 estavam cobertos de madeira e estes três lugares tinham igualmente janelas recuadas. Quanto às paredes interiores do templo, eram da mesma forma revestidas de madeira, tanto na parte de cima como na parte por baixo das janelas. 17 O espaço acima da parte que conduzia até ao lugar santíssimo também estava revestido de madeira. 18 As paredes eram decoradas com incrustações que representavam querubins, cada um deles com dois rostos intercalados com palmeiras. 19 Um dos rostos, como um rosto humano, olhava para a palmeira que estava de um lado; o outro, como o rosto de um leão, estava virado para o lado da outra palmeira. 20 E era assim em toda a volta da parede interior do templo.

21 Havia ombreiras em todas as portas da nave do templo e em frente do lugar santíssimo encontrava-se algo 22 que parecia um altar de madeira. Este altar era quadrado, com 1 metro de lado e 1,5 metros de altura; os seus cantos, a sua base e os lados eram de madeira. "Esta", disse-me ele, "é a mesa que está sempre diante do Senhor." 23 Tanto a nave do templo como o lugar santíssimo tinham duplas portas, 24 cada uma com dois batentes. 25 As portas que conduziam à nave do templo tinham querubins como decoração, além das palmeiras, tal como as paredes. Uma trave grossa estava atravessada por cima do vestíbulo de entrada. 26 Havia janelas recuadas e palmeiras trabalhadas na madeira, de ambos os lados do átrio de entrada, e também nos vestíbulos laterais do templo e nas grossas traves da entrada.

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.