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 madeira22 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 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 of it forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.3 Then he went 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 of it twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.5 Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round 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 around, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.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 around the house; therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.8 I saw also the hight of the house around: 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 width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.11 And the doors of the side-chambers were towards the place that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits around.12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end towards the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick around, and its length ninety cubits.13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, a hundred cubits long;14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place towards the east, a hundred cubits.15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;17 To that above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall around within and without, by measure.18 And it was made with cherubim 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 towards the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm-tree on the other side: it was made through all the house around.20 From the ground to above the door were cherubim 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.22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to 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 each, 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, cherubim and palm-trees, 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.