1 T hen he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the separate place, and which was over against 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 one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width 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 belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.

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 B efore the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were 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 rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in 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, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle 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 T he wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length 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 rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before 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 F rom under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them 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 I n the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

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 T he way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their width: and all their exits 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 ccording to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before 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 to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal 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 in, then shall they 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 they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which is 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 finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.

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 on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

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

17 H e measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

The north side was as long as 500 sticks.

18 H e measured on 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 on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

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.