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| 1Then he brought me to the outer, north-facing courtyard into the chamber that stood opposite the structure that was facing north. | 1Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north. |
| 2It stood 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide, with a door in the middle. | 2The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits. |
| 3Opposite the 20 cubits wide inner court, and opposite the paved area that comprised the outer court, there were three stories of galleries that faced each other. | 3Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. |
| 4In front of the chambers there was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and 100 cubits wide, the openings to which were on the north. | 4And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north. |
| 5The upper chambers were narrower, since the galleries required more space than did the lower and middle portions of the building. | 5Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. |
| 6The three part structure had no columns, unlike the courts, which is why the upper chambers were offset from the ground upward, more so than the lower and middle chambers. | 6For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. |
| 7The outer wall by the side of the chambers toward the outer court and facing the chambers was 50 cubits long. | 7And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long. |
| 8While the chambers in the outer court were 50 cubits in length, the chambers facing the Temple were 100 cubits long. | 8For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long. |
| 9Below these chambers, as one might enter from the outer court, was the east side entrance. | 9Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. |
| 10There were chambers built into the thick part of the wall of the court facing the east; that is, facing the separate area toward the front of the building, | 10In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers |
| 11with a passageway in front of them, similar in appearance to the chambers that were on the north, proportional to their length and width, with all of their exits according to their arrangements and doorways. | 11with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors, |
| 12Corresponding to the chamber doorways facing the south was an opening at the beginning of the passage; that is, the passage in front of the corresponding part of the wall facing east as one might enter. | 12as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them. |
| 13Then he told me, "The north and south chamber, which are opposite the courtyard, are consecrated areas where the priests who approach the LORD will eat consecrated offerings and lay the consecrated grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings, because the area is holy. | 13Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy. |
| 14When the priest enters, they will not enter the outer court from the sanctuary without having removed their garments worn during their time of ministry, because they are holy. They will put on different clothes, and then they will approach the area reserved for the people." | 14When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.” |
| 15After he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the east-facing gate and measured it all around. | 15Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. |
| 16He measured the east side at 500 reeds, according to the length of the measuring stick, | 16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. |
| 17the north side at 500 reeds, according to the length of the measuring stick, | 17He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. |
| 18the south side at 500 reeds, according to the length of the measuring stick, | 18He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. |
| 19and the west side at 500 reeds, according to the length of the measuring stick. | 19Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. |
| 20He measured a wall that encompassed all four sides, 500 hundred long and 500 wide, dividing between the sacred and common areas. | 20He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common. |
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