1 ¶ Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the space which was in front of the building toward the north.

Then he brought me to the outside open space toward the north. He brought me to the rooms which were on the other side of the open space and the building to the north.

2 I n front of the north door the length was one hundred cubits, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

The building whose door faced north was as long as 100 cubits and as wide as fifty cubits.

3 O ver against the twenty cubits which were in the inner court, and over against the pavement which was in the outer court, were the chambers in three stories.

Over from the place in the inner open space which was as wide as twenty cubits, and over from the stone floor in the outer open space, was a walkway on the three floors, one above the other.

4 A nd in front of the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

In front of the rooms was an inside walkway as wide as ten cubits and as long as 100 cubits. Their doors were on the north.

5 N ow the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from the others, from the lower ones and from the middle ones.

The upper rooms were smaller because the walkways took more away from them than from the rooms on the first and second floors of the building.

6 F or they were in three stories, but did not have pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore they were narrower than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

For the rooms on all three floors had no pillars like the other buildings on the grounds. So the upper rooms were smaller than the ones on the first and second floors.

7 A nd the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.

There was an outside wall built beside the rooms toward the outer open space. It was in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.

8 F or the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and before the front of the temple were one hundred cubits.

The rooms next to the outer open space were as long as fifty cubits, and those over from the Lord’s house were as long as 100 cubits.

9 A nd under these chambers was the entry to the temple on the east side, to enter in to it from the outer court.

Below these rooms was a door on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer open space.

10 A ll along the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and in front of the building were chambers.

There were rooms in the width of the wall of the open space toward the east, over from the other open space and the other building.

11 A nd 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.

These rooms had a walkway in front of them, and they were like the rooms on the north. They had the same length and width. The ways out of them were the same, and the doors were made the same way.

12 A nd 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 in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

And like the doors of the rooms on the south side, there was a door at the beginning of the walkway in front of the wall toward the east, as one goes into them.

13 T hen he said unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the holy offerings; there they shall lay the holy offerings, and the present, and that which was offered as sin, and as guilt; for the place is holy.

Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, over from the other open space, are the holy rooms where the religious leaders who go near the Lord eat the most holy things. There they will lay the most holy things, the grain gift, the sin gift, and the guilt gift. For the place is holy.

14 W hen the priests enter therein, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and in this manner shall approach unto that which is of the people.

When the religious leaders go in, they are not to go out into the outer open space from the holy place without leaving behind the clothes they wear while they do the Lord’s work, for these are holy. They must put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”

15 ¶ Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate facing toward the east and measured it round about.

When he had finished showing me the lengths and widths of the inner house, he brought me out through the east gate. And he showed me the lengths of all the open space around the house.

16 H e measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

He showed me with his stick that the east side was as long as 500 sticks.

17 H e measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

The north side was as long as 500 sticks.

18 H e measured the south side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

The south side was as long as 500 sticks.

19 H e turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

And the west side was as long as 500 sticks.

20 H e 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.

He showed me the length of the four sides. It had a wall all around it, as long as 500 sticks and as wide as 500 sticks. This wall divided what was holy from what was not.