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| 1Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs. | 1Then the man brought me to the main hall and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits on each side. |
| 2And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits. | 2The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. |
| 3Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits. | 3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits wide. |
| 4And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.” | 4And 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. He said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." |
| 5Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. | 5Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide. |
| 6And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. | 6The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple. |
| 7And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. | 7The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor. |
| 8I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits. | 8I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits. |
| 9The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the | 9The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple |
| 10other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. | 10and the priests' rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. |
| 11And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around. | 11There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around. |
| 12The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. | 12The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits. |
| 13Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; | 13Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long. |
| 14also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits. | 14The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits. |
| 15Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court, | 15Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court, |
| 16the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), | 16as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries around the three of them--everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered. |
| 17to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern. | 17In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary |
| 18It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: | 18were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: |
| 19a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. | 19the face of a human being toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple. |
| 20From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave. | 20From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall. |
| 21The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling | 21The main hall had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar. |
| 22an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.” | 22There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." |
| 23The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door. | 23Both the main hall and the Most Holy Place had double doors. |
| 24The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door. | 24Each door had two leaves--two hinged leaves for each door. |
| 25And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside. | 25And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico. |
| 26And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies. | 26On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs. |
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