Chapter 42

  Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way towards the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building towards the north.  

  Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.  

  Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.  

  And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors towards the north.  

  Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.  

  For 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.  

  And the wall that was without over against the chambers, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.  

  For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.  

  And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court.  

  The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.  

  And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were towards 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.  

  And according to the doors of the chambers that were towards the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall towards the east, as one entereth into them.  

  Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are before the separate place, they are holy chambers, where the priests that approach to 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.  

  When the priests enter therein, 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 shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.  

  Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth towards the gate whose prospect is towards the east, and measured it around.  

  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed around.  

  He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed around.  

  He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.  

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

  He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall around, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.