⁴ And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall.^(A) He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.^(B)”

²⁰ The inner sanctuary^(A) was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.^(B)

³ Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,^{(A) 4} which had the golden altar of incense^(B) and the gold-covered ark of the covenant.^(C) This ark contained the gold jar of manna,^(D) Aaron’s staff that had budded,^(E) and the stone tablets of the covenant.^{(F) 5} Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory,^(G) overshadowing the atonement cover.^(H) But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

⁶ When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly^(I) into the outer room to carry on their ministry. ⁷ But only the high priest entered^(J) the inner room,^(K) and that only once a year,^(L) and never without blood,^(M) which he offered for himself^(N) and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.^{(O) 8} The Holy Spirit was showing^(P) by this that the way^(Q) into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning.

⁸ He built the Most Holy Place,^(A) its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents^[a] of fine gold.

³³ Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain.^(A) The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.^{(B) 34} Put the atonement cover^(C) on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.

¹⁶ The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia^[a] in length, and as wide and high as it is long.

¹⁶ He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.^(A)

⁵ Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.^(A)