| King James Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. | 1Then the man led me out by way of the north gate into the outer court. He brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple yard and opposite the building to the north. |
| 2Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. | 2Along the length of the chambers, which was 175 feet, there was an entrance on the north; the width was 87 1/2 feet. |
| 3Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. | 3Opposite the 35 foot space belonging to the inner court and opposite the paved surface belonging to the outer court, the structure rose gallery by gallery in three tiers. |
| 4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. | 4In front of the chambers was a walkway toward the inside, 17 1/2 feet wide and 175 feet long, and their entrances were on the north. |
| 5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. | 5The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building. |
| 6For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. | 6For they were arranged in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories. |
| 7And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. | 7A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87 1/2 feet long. |
| 8For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. | 8For the chambers on the outer court were 87 1/2 feet long, while those facing the great hall were 175 feet long. |
| 9And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. | 9At the base of these chambers there was an entryway on the east side as one enters them from the outer court. |
| 10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. | 10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the south, there were chambers facing the temple yard and the western building, |
| 11And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. | 11with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that faced north. Their length and width, as well as all their exits, measurements, and entrances, were identical. |
| 12And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. | 12The entrance at the beginning of the passageway, the way in front of the corresponding wall as one enters on the east side, was similar to the entrances of the chambers that were on the south side. |
| 13Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. | 13Then the man said to me, "The northern and southern chambers that face the temple yard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will deposit the most holy offerings--the grain offerings, sin offerings, and restitution offerings--for the place is holy. |
| 14When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people. | 14Once the priests have entered, they must not go out from the holy area to the outer court until they have removed the clothes they minister in, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the public area." |
| 15Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. | 15When he finished measuring inside the temple complex, he led me out by way of the gate that faced east and measured all around the complex. |
| 16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. | 16He measured the east side with a measuring rod; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod. |
| 17He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. | 17He measured the north side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod. |
| 18He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. | 18He measured the south side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod. |
| 19He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. | 19Then he turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring rod. |
| 20He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. | 20He measured the temple complex on all four sides. It had a wall all around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy from the common. |
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