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Sanctuary and Temple

¹ And he brought me to the temple sanctuary,^[a] and he measured the pilasters, six cubits^[b] wide on each side;^[c] this was the width of the tent.^{[d] 2} And the width of the doorway was ten cubits,^[e] and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side,^[f] and he measured its^[g] length as forty cubits,^[h] and its width was twenty cubits.^{[i] 3} And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubits^[j] and the doorway as six cubits^[k] and the width of the doorway seven cubits.^{[l] 4} And he measured its length as twenty cubits^[m] and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, "This is the most holy place.^[n]

⁵ And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits,^[o] and the width of the side room as four cubits^[p] all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall.^{[q] 6} And the side rooms were side by side^[r] in three stories and a total of thirty rooms,^[s] and there were offsets^[t] in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, all the way around^[u] to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple. ⁷ And each level widened, and it went around^[v] upward^[w] to the side rooms for the structure that surrounds^[x] the temple upward^[y] all the way around,^[z] therefore the width increased to the temple upward,^[aa] and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story.

⁸ And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around^[ab] the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.^{[ac] 9} The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits,^[ad] and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple ¹⁰ and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits^[ae] all around the temple, all the way around^[af] it. ¹¹ And the doorway of the side room faced^[ag] the open area; one doorway faced^[ah] the north,^[ai] and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubits^[aj] all around.^{[ak] 12} And the building that faced^[al] the courtyard was toward the west,^[am] and its width was seventy cubits,^[an] and the wall of the building was five cubits^[ao] wide all the way around,^[ap] and its length was ninety cubits.^{[aq] 13} And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits,^[ar] and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits.^{[as] 14} And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits.^{[at] 15} And he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard^[au] at the rear^[av] and its galleries, a hundred cubits^[aw] on each side,^[ax] and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard, ¹⁶ the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around,^[ay] and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered. ¹⁷ Above^[az] the doorway and up to the inner temple^[ba] and on the outside, and on all of the wall all the way around^[bb] in the inner and in the outer areas were patterns,^{[bc] 18} and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and the cherub had two faces.^{[bd] 19} And the face of a human was toward^[be] the palm tree image on the one side,^[bf] and the face of a fierce strong lion faced^[bg] the palm tree image on the other side;^[bh] this work was executed^[bi] for the entire temple all the way around.^{[bj] 20} From the ground up to above^[bk] the doorway,^[bl] the cherubim and the palm tree images were made,^[bm] and also the outer wall of the temple.

²¹ As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and before^[bn] the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of ²² a wooden altar^[bo] that was three cubits^[bp] high, and its length was two cubits,^[bq] and its corners^[br] for it and its length and its walls were of wood. And he spoke to me, "This is the table that is before^[bs] Yahweh." ²³ And the two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary. ²⁴ And two leaves^[bt] of a door were for each of the doors, two hinged leaves of a door: two were for the first door, and two leaves of a door were for the other door. ²⁵ And cherubim were made^[bu] on them, that is, on the doors of the temple and palm tree images like the ones prepared for the walls;^[bv] and an overhang of wood was on the surface of the porticos on the outside. ²⁶ And narrow windows and palm tree images were on either side,^[bw] and on the side walls of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple and their^[bx] overhang.