Then 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.
02 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the
north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
03 Over 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.
04 And before the chambers was a walk to ten
cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and
their doors toward the north.
05 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the
galleries were higher than these, than the lower,
and than the middlemost of the building.
06 For 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.
07 And 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.
08 For the length of the chambers that were in
the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before
the temple were an hundred cubits.
09 And from under these chambers was the entry on
the east side, as one goeth into them from the
utter court.
10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall
of the court toward the east, over against the
separate place, and over against the building.
11 And 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.
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12 And 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.
13 Then 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.
14 When 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.
15 Now 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.
16 He measured the east side with the measuring
reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed
round about.
17 He measured the north side, five hundred
reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
18 He measured the south side, five hundred
reeds, with the measuring reed.
19 He turned about to the west side, and measured
five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
20 He 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.
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