1 He brought me to the temple, 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 temple. 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 order. 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 wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, 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 house, 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 house, 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 As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, 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 length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." 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 temple, 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 house and the thresholds were arranged.

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.