1 Seguidamente levou-me à nave do templo, a parte mais espaçosa do templo e mediu os seus pilares. Eram quadrados, com 3,5 metros de lado. A largura da entrada era de 5,75 metros; e tinha 3 metros de fundo. A nave só por si tinha 23 metros de comprimento e 11,5 metros de largura.

3 Depois entrou no compartimento ao fundo da nave e mediu as colunas de entrada, que eram de um metro de espessura. A largura da entrada desse quarto era de 3,5 metros com um vestíbulo de 4 metros de fundo, por detrás. Esse compartimento era quadrado e tinha 11,5 metros de lado. Este, disse-me ele, é o lugar santíssimo.

5 Mediu a parede do templo e constatou que era da espessura de 3,5 metros com uma série de câmaras laterais em toda a volta. Cada uma dessas câmaras tinha 2,25 metros de largura. Estas câmaras estavam construídas em três fileiras que se sobrepunham; cada fileira tinha trinta câmaras. Toda a estrutura estava suportada por vigas e não estavam presas à parede do templo. Cada fileira era mais largo 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, em 3,5 metros sobre essa plataforma. A parede exterior dessas câmaras tinha 3 metros de espessura; e ficou um espaço vazio, das câmaras laterais, que estava junto ao templo.

10 Onze metros e meio afastada da plataforma, de ambos os lados do templo, havia uma fila de câmaras, em baixo, no pátio interior. Duas portas abriam-se, da fileira de câmaras sobre a plataforma, que tinha 3 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 40,75 metros de largura, por 52,5 metros de comprimento. As paredes tinham três metros de espessura. Então mediu o templo e também os espaços de separação em volta. Era uma área de cinquenta e oito metros quadrados. O pátio interior, a oriente do templo, tinha também 58 metros de largo, e igual a este era também o edifício a ocidente do templo, incluindo as suas duas paredes nave do templo, o lugar santíssimo e o átrio de entrada estavam cobertos de madeira; e estes três lugares tinham igualmente janelas recuadas. Quanto às paredes interiores do templo, eram da mesma foram revestidas de madeira tanto na parte de cima como na parte de debaixo das janelas.

17 O espaço acima da parte que conduzia até ao lugar santíssimo também estava revestido de madeira. As paredes eram decoradas com incrustações representando querubins, cada um deles com dois rostos e intercalados alternadamente com palmeiras. Um dos rostos - como um rosto humano - olhava para a palmeira que estava de um lado; o outro - como rosto de um leão - estava virado para o lado da outra palmeira. 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 que tinha a aparência de um altar, mas que era feito de madeira

22 Este altar era quadrado, com um metro de lado e 1,75 metros de altura; os seus cantos, a sua base e os lados eram de madeira. Isto, disse-me ele, é a mesa do Senhor.

23 Tanto a nave do templo como o lugar santíssimo tinham duplas portas, cada uma com dois batentes volantes. 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. 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 Then he took me unto the temple,and measured the projection six cubits broad on this side and six cubits broad on that side, the breadth of the tent.

2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then went he inwards, and measured the projection of the entrance, two cubits,and the entrance itself was six cubits, and the sides of the entrance seven cubits:

4 so he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, at the front of the temple.

5 Then said he unto me This! is the holy of holies. Then measured he the wall of the house six cubits,and the breadth of the side-chamber, four cubits round about on every side of the house round about.

6 And the side-chambers, one over another were three, and that thirty times, and they entered into the wall which pertained to the house for the side-chambers round about on every side that they might have support, -and yet not have support in the wall of the house itself.

7 And there was a broadening and a winding about higher and higher to the side-chambers, for the circuit of the house! was higher and higher round about on every side of the house, for this cause was there a broadening of the house upwards,and from the lower, one ascended to the higher, by that which was in the middle,

8 Then saw I that the house had a height round about on every side,the foundations of the side- chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joining.

9 The breadth of the wall which pertained to the side-chamber on the outside was five cubits,- and that which was left vacant between the side-chambers which pertained to the house.

10 And between the chambers, was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house round about on every side,

11 And the entrance of the side-chamber, was at the vacant space, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance, toward the south,and the breadth of the place left vacant was five cubits round about on every side.

12 And the building which was toward the front of the secluded place on the side toward the west was n breadth seventy cubits, and the wall of the building was five cubits in breadth round about on every side, -and the length thereof ninety cubits.

13 And he measured the house, in length, a hundred cubits,and the secluded place and the structure and the wall thereof, in length, a hundred cubits.

14 And the breadth of the front of the house and the secluded place toward the east, a hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building against the front of the secluded place which was over the binder part thereof and the galleries thereof on this side and on that side a hundred cubits,with the inner temple and the porches of the court:

16 the entrance spaces and the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, over against the entrance spaces wainscoted with wood, round about on every side,and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows, were covered;

17 unto the space above the entrance even unto the inner house and without and against all the wall round about on every side within and without, were the measures

18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees,with a palm-tree between cherub and cherub, and two faces had each cherub;

19 and I the face of a man was toward the palm-tree on this side, and tithe face of a young lion was toward the palm-tree on that side,thus was it made unto all the house, round about on every side.

20 From the ground as far as the space above the entrance: were the cherubim and the palm-trees made.

21 As for the wall of the temple, the door-posts were square,and as for the face of the holy place, the appearance was like the appearance .

22 The altar, was of wood, three cubits in height and the length thereof, two cubits and the corners thereof and the length thereof and the walls thereof were of wood,then spake he unto me saying, This, is the table, which is before Yahweh.

23 And there were two doors, to the temple, and to the holy place;

24 and two leaves to the doors,two folding leaves, two to the one door and two to the other door.

25 And there had been made unto them unto the doors of the temple cherubim and palm-trees, like as had been made to the walls,and thick beams of wood unto the front of the porch without.

26 And there were latticed windows and palm-trees on this side and on that side, unto the sides of the porch,and unto the side chambers of the house and the thick beams.