Ezekiel
Chapter 42
1
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.
2
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,
and
the breadth was fifty cubits.
3
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.
4
And before the chambers
was
a walk of ten cubits breadth inward,
a
way of one cubit;
and
their doors toward the north.
5
Now the upper chambers were shorter . . .
for
the galleries were higher than these,
than
the lower,
and
than the middlemost of the building.
6
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.
7
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.
8
For the length of the chambers
that
were in the utter court was fifty cubits.
And, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
9
And from under these chambers
was
the entry on the east side,
as
one goes 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.
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 enters into them.
13
Then He said unto me,
"The
north chambers and the south chambers,
which
are before the separate place,
they
are holy chambers,
where
the priests who approach unto Jehovah/God
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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