The Vision of the Temple

1Next he brought me to the Temple and measured its door jambs at six cubitsa wide on each side of the structure.b 2The entrance was ten cubitsc wide and its door jambs were five cubitsd wide on each side. He measured the length of the nave at 40 cubitse and its width at 20 cubits.f

3Then he went inside and measured the door jambs at two cubitsg wide and the doorway at six cubitsh high. The doorway was seven cubitsi wide. 4He measured its length at 20 cubits,j its width at 20 cubitsk in front of the structure,l and then he told me, “This is the most holy area.”

5Next, he measured the Temple walls at six cubitsm high and the width of the side chambers at four cubitsn around all four sides of the Temple. 6The side chambers consisted of three stories, each above the other, with 30 chambers in each story. The side chambers extended out from the wall that faced the inside of the chambers where the chambers were fastened together, but the chamber walls were not fastened directly into the Temple walls themselves. 7The side chambers surrounding the Temple were wider at each successive story, because the surrounding structure ascended by proportional increments as it rose, ascending to the highest story by going up successively from the lowest.

8I observed a raised platform that surrounded the Temple, and the foundations of the side chambers were a full six cubitso deep. 9The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubitsp thick, and there was an empty space between the Temple’s side chambers 10and its outer chambers 20 cubitsq in width, surrounding the Temple on each side. 11The side chamber doorway facing the free space contained a single north-facing doorway and a second south-facing doorway. The width of the free space was five cubitsr all around the perimeter.s 12The building that faced the west side of the courtyard was 70 cubitst wide, and the building’s wall was five cubitsu thick all around. It was 90 cubitsv long.

The Temple

13Then he measured the Temple. It was 100 cubitsw long, and the courtyard, its building, and its walls were 100 cubitsx long. 14The front of the Temple and its east-facing courtyard were eachy 100 cubitsz long. 15Next, he measured 100 cubitsaa as the length of the structure toward the front of the courtyard that stood behind it, where it housed a gallery on each side of it. Then he measured the Temple and the inner porticosbb of the courtyard, 16the thresholds, the shieldedcc windows, and the surrounding three-storied galleries that stood opposite. From the ground to the shieldeddd windows, they were paneled with wood all around, 17including up to the doorway, up to the Temple (both within and without) and all around both sides of the inner wall, according to his measurement. 18There were carved cherubim and palm trees, alternating with a palm tree between a cherub, and each cherub had two faces, 19with a human face lookingee toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face lookingff toward the palm tree on the other side. These carvings extended all the way around the Temple, 20from the ground to above the doorway, as well as on the walls of the main sanctuary.

21The door posts of the main sanctuary were square. Each door post was identical in appearance to the others. 22The altar was made of wood, three cubitsgg high and two cubitshh long. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. He told me, “This table stands in the LORD’s presence.”

23The nave and the sanctuary each were equipped with double doors. 24Each door had two sections mounted on hinges,ii for a total of two sections for one door and two sections for the other. 25The doors of the nave had carvings engraved on them, consisting of cherubim and palm trees identical to those on the walls. The front of the exterior porch was equipped with a wooden threshold. 26Shielded windows and palm trees were visiblejj on both sides; that is, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the Temple, and on its thresholds.