Ezekiel 42

Revised Geneva Translation

42 Then he brought me into the outer court by the way toward the North; and he brought me into the chamber that was opposite the separate place, and which was in front of the building toward the North.

² Along the length (of a hundred cubits) was the North door, fifty cubits wide.

³ Opposite the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement which was for the outer court, was gallery after gallery in three stories.

⁴ And in front of the chambers was a gallery of ten cubits wide, with a one-cubit path inside. And their doors were toward the North.

⁵ Now, the chambers above were narrower. For the galleries seemed to eat up these more than the lower and those that were in the midst of the building.

⁶ For they were in three stories but did not have pillars as the pillars of the court. Therefore, there was a difference from the ground between those beneath and in the middle and those above.

⁷ And the wall that was outside, opposite the chambers, toward the outer court, on the front of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.

⁸ For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And lo, in front of the Temple were a hundred cubits.

⁹ And under these chambers was the entry, on the East side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

¹⁰ The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court, toward the East, opposite the separate place, and opposite the building.

¹¹ And the way in front of them was the same as that of the chambers which were toward the North, as long and as wide as they were. And all their entries were alike, both according to their fashions and according to their doors.

¹² And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the South, was a door in the corner of the way, the way directly in front of the wall toward the East, as one enters.

¹³ Then he said to me, “The North chambers and the South chambers which are before the separate place, they are holy chambers in which the Priests who approach the LORD shall eat the Most Holy things. There they shall lay the Most Holy things, and the Meat Offering, and the Sin Offering, and the Trespass Offering, for the place is holy.

¹⁴ “When the Priests enter in, they shall not go out of the Holy Place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments there where they minister, for they are holy. And they shall put on other garments, and then shall approach those things which are for the people.”

¹⁵ Now when he had finished measuring the inner House, he brought me forth toward the gate which faced toward the East and measured it all around.

¹⁶ He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed, all around.

¹⁷ He measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

¹⁸ And he measured the south side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

¹⁹ He turned around to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

²⁰ He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred long and five hundred wide, to make a separation between the Sanctuary and the profane place.