| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New Living Translation |
| 1Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the separate area and opposite the building toward the north. | 1Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard. |
| 2Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits. | 2This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1/2 feet wide. |
| 3Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories. | 3One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other. |
| 4Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north. | 4Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1/2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north. |
| 5Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building. | 5Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them. |
| 6For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones. | 6Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it. |
| 7As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. | 7There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1/2 feet long. |
| 8For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits. | 8This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1/2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet. |
| 9Below these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. | 9There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms. |
| 10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers. | 10On the south side of the Temple there were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between the Temple and the outer courtyard. These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north. |
| 11The way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their arrangements and openings. | 11There was a walkway between the two blocks of rooms just like the complex on the north side of the Temple. This complex of rooms was the same length and width as the other one, and it had the same entrances and doors. The dimensions of each were identical. |
| 12Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them. | 12So there was an entrance in the wall facing the doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east at the end of the interior walkway. |
| 13Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy. | 13Then the man told me, “These rooms that overlook the Temple from the north and south are holy. Here the priests who offer sacrifices to the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. And because these rooms are holy, they will be used to store the sacred offerings—the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. |
| 14"When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary without laying there their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people." | 14When the priests leave the sanctuary, they must not go directly to the outer courtyard. They must first take off the clothes they wore while ministering, because these clothes are holy. They must put on other clothes before entering the parts of the building complex open to the public.” |
| 15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced toward the east and measured it all around. | 15When the man had finished measuring the inside of the Temple area, he led me out through the east gateway to measure the entire perimeter. |
| 16He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the measuring reed. | 16He measured the east side with his measuring rod, and it was 875 feet long. |
| 17He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed. | 17Then he measured the north side, and it was also 875 feet. |
| 18On the south side he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. | 18The south side was also 875 feet, |
| 19He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. | 19and the west side was also 875 feet. |
| 20He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the profane. | 20So the area was 875 feet on each side with a wall all around it to separate what was holy from what was common. |
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