1 T hen 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.

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 B efore the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, 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 for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery 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 before the chambers was a walk to 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 were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

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 had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more 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 utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

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 utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an 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 from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

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

10 T he chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

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 before the wall toward the east, as one entereth 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 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.

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 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.

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 N ow 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.

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.