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¹ And he brings me forth to the outer court, the way northward, and he brings me into the chamber that [is] opposite the separate place, and that [is] opposite the building at the north.² At the front of the length [is] one hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth—fifty cubits.³ Opposite the twenty [cubits] that are of the inner court, and opposite the pavement that [is] of the outer court, [is] gallery [with] face toward gallery, in the three [stories].⁴ And at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth to the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the north.⁵ And the upper chambers [are] short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;⁶ for they [are] threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it has been kept back—more than the lower and than the middle one—from the ground.⁷ As for the wall that [is] at the outside, alongside the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length [is] fifty cubits;⁸ for the length of the chambers that [are] in the outer court [is] fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple—one hundred cubits.⁹ And under these chambers [is] the entrance from the east, in one's going into them from the outer court.¹⁰ In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, to the front of the separate place, and to the front of the building, [are] chambers.¹¹ And the way before them [is] as the appearance of the chambers that [are] northward, according to their length so [is] their breadth, and all their outlets, and according to their fashions, and according to their openings.¹² And according to the openings of the chambers that [are] southward [is] an opening at the head of the way, the way directly in the front of the wall eastward in entering them.¹³ And he says to me, "The north chambers, the south chambers, that [are] at the front of the separate place, they [are] holy chambers, where the priests (who [are] near to YHWH) eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, for the place [is] holy.¹⁴ In the priests' going in, they do not come out from the sanctuary to the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they [are] holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near to that which [is] for the people."

¹⁵ And he has finished the measurements of the inner house, and has brought me forth the way of the gate whose front [is] eastward, and he has measured it all around.¹⁶ He has measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed all around.¹⁷ He has measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.¹⁸ The south side he has measured, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.¹⁹ He has turned around to the west side, he has measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.²⁰ At the four sides he has measured it; it had a wall all around, the length—five hundred, and the breadth—five hundred, to separate between the holy and the profane place.