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| 1Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north. | 1Then 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. |
| 2The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits. | 2The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide. |
| 3Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. | 3Both 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. |
| 4And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north. | 4In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north. |
| 5Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. | 5Now 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. |
| 6For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. | 6The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. |
| 7And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long. | 7There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. |
| 8For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long. | 8While 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. |
| 9Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. | 9The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court. |
| 10In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers | 10On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms |
| 11with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors, | 11with 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 |
| 12as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them. | 12were 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. |
| 13Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy. | 13Then 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. |
| 14When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.” | 14Once 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." |
| 15Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. | 15When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around: |
| 16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. | 16He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits. |
| 17He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. | 17He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. |
| 18He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. | 18He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. |
| 19Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. | 19Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. |
| 20He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common. | 20So 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. |
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