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| 1Next he brought me to the Temple and measured its door jambs at six cubits wide on each side of the structure. | 1After that, the man brought me into the sanctuary of the Temple. He measured the walls on either side of its doorway, and they were 10 1/2 feet thick. |
| 2The entrance was ten cubits wide and its door jambs were five cubits wide on each side. He measured the length of the nave at 40 cubits and its width at 20 cubits. | 2The doorway was 17 1/2 feet wide, and the walls on each side of it were 8 3/4 feet long. The sanctuary itself was 70 feet long and 35 feet wide. |
| 3Then he went inside and measured the door jambs at two cubits wide and the doorway at six cubits high. The doorway was seven cubits wide. | 3Then he went beyond the sanctuary into the inner room. He measured the walls on either side of its entrance, and they were 3 1/2 feet thick. The entrance was 10 1/2 feet wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance were 12 1/4 feet long. |
| 4He measured its length at 20 cubits, its width at 20 cubits in front of the structure, and then he told me, "This is the most holy area." | 4The inner room of the sanctuary was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide. “This,” he told me, “is the Most Holy Place.” |
| 5Next, he measured the Temple walls at six cubits high and the width of the side chambers at four cubits around all four sides of the Temple. | 5Then he measured the wall of the Temple, and it was 10 1/2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide. |
| 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. | 6These side rooms were built in three levels, one above the other, with thirty rooms on each level. The supports for these side rooms rested on exterior ledges on the Temple wall; they did not extend into the wall. |
| 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. | 7Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level. |
| 8I observed a raised platform that surrounded the Temple, and the foundations of the side chambers were a full six cubits deep. | 8I saw that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1/2 feet high. |
| 9The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick, and there was an empty space between the Temple's side chambers | 9The outer wall of the Temple’s side rooms was 8 3/4 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms |
| 10and its outer chambers 20 cubits in width, surrounding the Temple on each side. | 10and the row of rooms along the outer wall of the inner courtyard. This open area was 35 feet wide, and it went all the way around the Temple. |
| 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 cubits all around the perimeter. | 11Two doors opened from the side rooms into the terrace yard, which was 8 3/4 feet wide. One door faced north and the other south. |
| 12The building that faced the west side of the courtyard was 70 cubits wide, and the building's wall was five cubits thick all around. It was 90 cubits long. | 12A large building stood on the west, facing the Temple courtyard. It was 122 1/2 feet wide and 157 1/2 feet long, and its walls were 8 3/4 feet thick. |
| 13Then he measured the Temple. It was 100 cubits long, and the courtyard, its building, and its walls were 100 cubits long. | 13Then the man measured the Temple, and it was 175 feet long. The courtyard around the building, including its walls, was an additional 175 feet in length. |
| 14The front of the Temple and its east-facing courtyard were each 100 cubits long. | 14The inner courtyard to the east of the Temple was also 175 feet wide. |
| 15Next, he measured 100 cubits 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 porticos of the courtyard, | 15The building to the west, including its two walls, was also 175 feet wide. The sanctuary, the inner room, and the entry room of the Temple |
| 16the thresholds, the shielded windows, and the surrounding three-storied galleries that stood opposite. From the ground to the shielded windows, they were paneled with wood all around, | 16were all paneled with wood, as were the frames of the recessed windows. The inner walls of the Temple were paneled with wood above and below the windows. |
| 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. | 17The space above the door leading into the inner room, and its walls inside and out, were also paneled. |
| 18There were carved cherubim and palm trees, alternating with a palm tree between a cherub, and each cherub had two faces, | 18All the walls were decorated with carvings of cherubim, each with two faces, and there was a carving of a palm tree between each of the cherubim. |
| 19with a human face looking toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face looking toward the palm tree on the other side. These carvings extended all the way around the Temple, | 19One face—that of a man—looked toward the palm tree on one side. The other face—that of a young lion—looked toward the palm tree on the other side. The figures were carved all along the inside of the Temple, |
| 20from the ground to above the doorway, as well as on the walls of the main sanctuary. | 20from the floor to the top of the walls, including the outer wall of the sanctuary. |
| 21The door posts of the main sanctuary were square. Each door post was identical in appearance to the others. | 21There were square columns at the entrance to the sanctuary, and the ones at the entrance of the Most Holy Place were similar. |
| 22The altar was made of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. He told me, "This table stands in the LORD's presence." | 22There was an altar made of wood, 5 1/4 feet high and 3 1/2 feet across. Its corners, base, and sides were all made of wood. “This,” the man told me, “is the table that stands in the LORD’s presence.” |
| 23The nave and the sanctuary each were equipped with double doors. | 23Both the sanctuary and the Most Holy Place had double doorways, |
| 24Each door had two sections mounted on hinges, for a total of two sections for one door and two sections for the other. | 24each with two swinging doors. |
| 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. | 25The doors leading into the sanctuary were decorated with carved cherubim and palm trees, just as on the walls. And there was a wooden roof at the front of the entry room to the Temple. |
| 26Shielded windows and palm trees were visible on both sides; that is, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the Temple, and on its thresholds. | 26On both sides of the entry room were recessed windows decorated with carved palm trees. The side rooms along the outside wall also had roofs. |
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