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The Inner Temple

¹ Then he (the angel) ^(C1)brought me to ^(C2)the nave (outer sanctuary) and measured the ^(C3)side pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the ^(F1)side pillar.² The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the ^(F1)sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side; and he measured its length, ^(C1)forty cubits, and its width, ^(C1)twenty cubits.³ Then he went ^(C1)inside the inner sanctuary and measured each ^(C2)side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high, and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. ^(VR1)4 He measured the length of the interior of the inner sanctuary, ^(C1)twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, ^(F1)opposite the ^(C2)nave (outer sanctuary); and he said to me, "This is the ^(F2)(C3)Most Holy Place."

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, to accommodate side chambers; and the width of every ^(C1)side chamber, four cubits, all around the temple on every side.^6 (C1)The side chambers were three stories high, one above another, and thirty chambers in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward ^(C2)side all around, so that they would be attached, but not attached to the wall of the temple itself.⁷ The side chambers became wider at each successive level as they encompassed the temple. Because the ^(C1)structure surrounding the temple went higher by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest one by way of the ^(F1)second story.⁸ I also saw that the temple (house) had a raised platform all around it; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full rod of ^(C1)six long cubits in height.⁹ The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ^(C1)free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple¹⁰ and the outer ^(C1)chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.¹¹ The doorways of the side chambers toward the ^(C1)free space were one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free ^(C1)space was five cubits all around.

¹² The ^(C1)building that was in front of the ^(C2)separate area on the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

¹³ Then he measured the temple, a ^(C1)hundred cubits long; the ^(C2)separate area and the ^(C3)building with its walls were also a ^(C1)hundred cubits long.¹⁴ Also the width of the front of the temple and the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

¹⁵ He (the angel) measured the length of the ^(C1)building along the front of the ^(C2)separate area behind it, with a ^(C3)gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches (porticoes) of the courtyard.¹⁶ The ^(C1)thresholds, the ^(C2)latticed windows, and the ^(C3)galleries all around their ^(C4)three stories, opposite the threshold, were ^(C5)paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),¹⁷ over the entrance, and to the inner ^(F1)room, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.¹⁸ It was ^(F1)carved with figures of ^(C1)cherubim and ^(C2)palm trees; so that a palm decoration was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,¹⁹ so that the ^(C1)face of a man was toward the palm decoration on the one side, and the ^(C1)face of a young lion toward the palm decoration on the other side. It was carved this way on the entire house (temple) all around.²⁰ From the ^(F1)floor to the space above the entrance ^(C1)cherubim and ^(C1)palm decorations were carved, and also on the wall of the nave the Holy Place.

²¹ The ^(C1)doorposts of the ^(C2)nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.²² The ^(F1)(C1)altar was of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long; and its corners, its ^(F2)base, and its ^(F3)sides were wood. And he said to me, "This is the ^(C2)table that is before the LORD."²³ The ^(C1)nave (Holy Place) and the ^(C2)sanctuary (Holy of Holies) each had a double ^(C3)door.²⁴ Each of the doors had two leaves, two ^(C1)swinging (folding) leaves; two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other.²⁵ And there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, ^(C1)cherubim and ^(C1)palm decorations like those carved on the walls; and there was a ^(F1)(C2)threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.²⁶ There were ^(C1)latticed windows and ^(C2)palm decorations on one side and on the other, on the sides of the ^(C3)porch. Thus were the ^(C4)side chambers and the ^(F1)thresholds of the house.