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Chambers of the Temple

¹ Then he ^(C1)brought me out into the ^(C2)outer courtyard, the way ^(C3)toward the north; and he brought me to the ^(C4)chamber which was opposite the ^(C5)separate area and opposite the ^(C6)building toward the north.² Along the length, which was a ^(C1)hundred ^(F1)cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.³ Opposite the ^(C1)twenty cubits which belonged to the inner courtyard, and opposite the ^(C2)stone pavement which belonged to the outer courtyard, was ^(F1)(C3)gallery corresponding to ^(F1)gallery in three stories.⁴ In front of the ^(C1)chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.⁵ Now the upper chambers were ^(F1)smaller because the ^(F2)(C1)galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.⁶ For they were in ^(C1)three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; for that reason the upper chambers were ^(F1)set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.⁷ As for the ^(C1)outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.⁸ For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a ^(C1)hundred cubits.⁹ And below these chambers was the ^(C1)entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer courtyard.

¹⁰ In the ^(F1)thickness of the ^(C1)wall of the courtyard toward the east, facing the ^(C2)separate area and facing the building, there were ^(C3)chambers.¹¹ And the ^(C1)way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north; according to their length, so was their width, and all their exits were according to their building plans and openings.¹² Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the ^(C1)wall toward the east, as one enters them.

¹³ Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the ^(C1)separate area, they are the ^(C2)holy chambers where the priests who are ^(C3)near to the LORD shall eat the ^(C4)most holy things. There they shall set the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.¹⁴ "When the priests enter, they shall not go out into the outer courtyard from the sanctuary ^(F1)without ^(C1)laying their ^(C2)garments there in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people."

¹⁵ Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the ^(C1)gate which faced east, and measured it all around.¹⁶ He measured on the east side with the measuring ^(F1)rod: five hundred rods by the ^(C1)measuring rod.¹⁷ He measured on the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.¹⁸ On the south side he measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod.¹⁹ He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod.²⁰ He measured it ^(F1)on the four sides; it had a ^(C1)wall all around, the ^(C2)length five hundred rods and the ^(C2)width five hundred, to ^(C3)divide between the holy and the ^(F2)common.