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The Inner Temple

¹ Then he ^(C1)brought me to the ^(C2)sanctuary, and he measured the ^(C3)side pillars: six ^(F1)cubits wide on each side was the width of the ^(F2)side pillar.² The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the ^(F1)sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured ^(F2)the length of the sanctuary, ^(C1)forty cubits, and the width, ^(C1)twenty cubits.³ Then he went ^(F1)(C1)inside 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.⁴ And he measured its length, ^(C1)twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the ^(C2)sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the ^(C3)Most Holy Place."

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the ^(F1)temple, six cubits; and the width of the ^(C1)side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side.^6 (C1)The side chambers were in three stories, ^(F1)one above another, and ^(F2)thirty in each story; and ^(F3)the side chambers ^(C2)extended to the wall which stood on ^(F4)their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.⁷ And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ^(C1)structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ^(F1)second story.⁸ I saw also that the house had a raised ^(F1)platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full ^(F2)rod of ^(C1)six ^(F3)long cubits in height.⁹ The ^(F1)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 twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side.¹¹ The ^(F1)doorways of the side ^(F2)chambers toward the ^(C1)free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the ^(C1)free space was five cubits all around.

¹² The ^(C1)building that was in front of the ^(C2)separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits ^(F1)thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

¹³ Then he measured the temple, a ^(C1)hundred cubits long; the ^(C2)separate area with the ^(C3)building and its walls were also a ^(C1)hundred cubits long.¹⁴ Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate ^(F1)areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

¹⁵ And he measured the length of the ^(C1)building ^(F1)along the front of the ^(C2)separate area behind it, with a ^(F2)(C3)gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard.¹⁶ The ^(C1)thresholds, the ^(F1)(C2)latticed windows, and the ^(F2)(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 house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.¹⁸ It was ^(F1)carved with ^(C1)cherubim and ^(C2)palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces:¹⁹ a ^(C1)human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young ^(C1)lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were ^(F1)carved on all the house all around.²⁰ From the ground to above the entrance ^(C1)cherubim and ^(C1)palm trees were ^(F1)carved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.

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