The Outer Court

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer court.^(A) There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms^(B) along the pavement.^(C)

² But exclude the outer court;^(A) do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles.^(B) They will trample on the holy city^(C) for 42 months.^(D)

The Rooms for the Priests

42 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms^(A) opposite the temple courtyard^(B) and opposite the outer wall on the north side.^(C)

²¹ He then brought me to the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw in each corner another court.

⁵ An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in.^[a](A)

⁵ The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far away as the outer court, like the voice^(A) of God Almighty^[a] when he speaks.^(B)

¹¹ Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the Lord, and this was done.

²⁸ The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the temple of the Lord: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification^(A) of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God.

²⁶ But the four principal gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the responsibility for the rooms and treasuries^(A) in the house of God.

⁴ In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits^[a] long.^[b] Their doors were on the north.^(A)