¹² The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits^[a] wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.^[b]

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north^(A) and south rooms^(B) facing the temple courtyard^(C) are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings,^(D) the sin offerings^[a](E) and the guilt offerings^(F)—for the place is holy.^(G)

¹⁰ On the south side^[a] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard^(A) and opposite the outer wall, were rooms^(B)

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)

¹³ Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits^[a] long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long. ¹⁴ The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.^(A)

¹⁵ Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries^(B) on each side; it was a hundred cubits.

The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,

¹⁴ “Blessed are those who wash their robes,^(A) that they may have the right to the tree of life^(B) and may go through the gates^(C) into the city.^{(D) 15} Outside^(E) are the dogs,^(F) those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,^(A) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.^(B)