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Rooms for the Priests
Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard.
Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard.
Chambers for the Priests
And he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the cells that were over against the separate place and which were over against the building, toward the north,
And he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the cells that were over against the separate place and which were over against the building, toward the north,
before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
over against the twenty [cubits] that pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement that pertained to the outer court; there was gallery against gallery in the third [story];
and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.
Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.
And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.
Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.
For they were in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore [the third story] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground.
There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1/2 feet long.
And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:
This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1/2 feet, while the inner block — the rooms toward the Temple — extended for 175 feet.
for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.
There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms.
And under these cells was the entry from the east, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;
There was a walkway between the two blocks of rooms just like the complex on the north side of the Temple. This complex of rooms was the same length and width as the other one, and it had the same entrances and doors. The dimensions of each were identical.
and a passage before them, like the appearance of the cells that were toward the north, according to their length, according to their breadth and all their goings out, and according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
So there was an entrance in the wall facing the doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east at the end of the interior walkway.
And according to the doors of the cells that were toward the south there was a door at the head of the way, the way directly before the corresponding wall toward the east as one entereth into them.
Then the man told me, “These rooms that overlook the Temple from the north and south are holy. Here the priests who offer sacrifices to the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. And because these rooms are holy, they will be used to store the sacred offerings — the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings.
And he said unto me, The north cells [and] the south cells, which are before the separate place, they are holy cells, where the priests that come near unto Jehovah shall eat the most holy things; there shall they lay the most holy things, both the oblation and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering: for the place is holy.
When the priests leave the sanctuary, they must not go directly to the outer courtyard. They must first take off the clothes they wore while ministering, because these clothes are holy. They must put on other clothes before entering the parts of the building complex open to the public.”
When the priests enter in, they shall not go forth from the sanctuary into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein 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 man had finished measuring the inside of the Temple area, he led me out through the east gateway to measure the entire perimeter.
Outer Measurements
And when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose front was toward the east, and measured [the enclosure] round about.
And when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose front was toward the east, and measured [the enclosure] round about.
He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
Then he measured the north side, and it was also 875 feet.
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
The south side was also 875 feet,
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.
and the west side was also 875 feet.
He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.