42:1 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.
42:2 The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
42:3 Both in the section twenty cubits from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery at the three levels.
42:4 In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
42:5 Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.
42:6 The rooms on the third floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.
42:7 There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.
42:8 While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.
42:9 The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
42:10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms
42:11 with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north
42:12 were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
42:13 Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings–the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings–for the place is holy.
42:14 Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”
42:15 When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:
42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.
42:17 He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
42:18 He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
42:19 Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.
42:20 So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
42:1 Then He brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north, and He brought me into the chamber that was adjacent to the separate place and which was adjacent to the building toward the north.
42:2 The length of the side of the northern entrance was a hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits.
42:3 Adjacent to the twenty-cubit space of the inner court and adjacent to the pavement of the outer court was gallery facing gallery on the third story.
42:4 And before the chambers on the inside was a walkway of ten cubits’ width, a way of one hundred cubits; and their entrances were toward the north.
42:5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more space away from these than from the lower and the middle stories in the building.
42:6 For they were arranged in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper story was set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories.
42:7 There was also an outside wall beside the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.
42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits.
42:9 And at the foot of these chambers was an entrance on the east side to enter them from the outer court;
42:10 By the breadth of the wall of the court to the south, beside the separate place and beside the building, there were chambers,
42:11 With a way before them. Their appearance was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north; just as their length, so also was their width; and all their exits were according to both their arrangements and their entrances.
42:12 So the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south were entered through an entrance toward the east at the head of the corresponding way, directly beside the wall.
42:13 Then He said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are beside the separate place are holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Jehovah shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy.
42:14 When the priests enter, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they have ministered, because they are holy. And they shall put on other garments and approach the area designated for the people.
42:15 Now when He had finished measuring the inner house, He brought me out through the gate which faces toward the east and measured it all around.
42:16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
42:17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.
42:18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
42:19 He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
42:20 He measured it on four sides. It had a wall all around, the length five hundred reeds and the width five hundred reeds, to make a separation between what was holy and what was common.