47He then measured the forecourt: 100 cubits long and 100 cubits broad—foursquare. In front of the Temple stood the altar. 48He took me into the portico of the Temple and measured it. The jambsw of the portico were 5 cubits deep on either side. The width of the gate-opening was x-[14 cubits, and the flanking wall of the gate was]-x 3 cubits on either side. 49The portico was 20 cubits widey and 11z cubits deep, and aa-it was by steps that it was reached.-aa There were columns by the jambs on either side.
41 He then led me into the great hall. He measured the jambs, 6 cubits on either side; such was the deptha of each jamb.b 2The entrance was 10 cubits wide, and the flanking walls of the entrance were each 5 cubits wide. Next he measured the depth [of the hall], 40 cubits, and the width, 20 cubits. 3And then he entered the inner room. He measured each jamb of the entrance, 2 cubits [deep]; the entrance itself, 6 cubits across; and the width of c-[the flanking wall on either side of]-c the en-trance, 7 cubits. 4Then he measured the depth, 20 cubits; and the width at the inner end of the great hall was also 20 cubits. And he said to me, “This is the Holy of Holies.”
5Then he measured the wall of the Temple. [It was] 6 cubits [thick] on every side of the Temple, and the side-chamber measured 4 cubits [across].d 6The side chambers were arranged one above the other, in 33 sections.e All around, there were projections in the Temple wall to serve the side chambers as supports, so that [their] supports should not be the Temple wall itself. 7The f-winding passage-f of the side chambers widened from story to story; g-and since the structure was furnished all over with wind-ing passages from story to story, the structure itself became wider from story to story.-g It was by this means that one ascended from the bottom story to the top one by way of the middle one.
8I observed that the Temple was surrounded by a raised pavement— the foundations of the side chambers; its elevation was a rod’s length, or 6 cubits. 9The outer wall of the side chamber was 5 cubits thick, and that which served as a walk between the Temple’s side chambers 10and the chamber complexesh was 20 cubits wide all around the Temple. 11Of entrances to the side chambers giving on the walk, there was one entrance on the north side and one entrance on the south side; and the spacei of the walk was 5 cubits thick all around. 12And the structure that fronted on the vacant space at the [Temple’s] western end was 70 cubits deep;a the walls of the structure were 5 cubits thick on every side; and it was 90 cubits wide.a
13He measured the [total] depth of the Temple, 100 cubits;j and the depth of the vacant space and of the structure, with its walls, also came to 100 cubits.k 14The front side of the Temple, like the vacant space on the east, was 100 cubits wide.l 15He also measured the widtha of the structure facing the vacant space in the rear, inclusive of its ledges,m 100 cubits.
Both the great hall inside and the portico next to the court 16—n-the thresholds-n—and the windows o-with frames-o and the ledgesp at the threshold, all over the three parts of each, were completely overlaido with wood. There was wainscoting from the floor to the windows, including the window [frame]s 17and extending above the openings, q-both in the inner Temple and outside.-q And all over the wall, q-both in the inner one and in the outer,-q ran a pattern.o 18It consisted of cherubs and palm trees, with a palm tree between every two cherubs. Each cherub had two faces: 19a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face turned toward the palm tree on the other side. This was repeated all over the Temple; 20the cherubs and the palm trees were carved onr the wall from the floor to above the openings.
As regards the great hall, 21the great hall had four doorposts; and before the Shrine was something resembling 22a wooden altar 3 cubits high and 2 cubits long and having inner corners;s and its lengtht and its walls were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the tableu that stands before the LORD.” 23The great hall had a double door, and the Shrine likewise had 24a double door, and each door had two o-swinging leaves:-o two for the one door and two o-such leaves-o for the other. 25Cherubs and palm trees were carved on these—on the doors of the hall—just as they were carved on the walls; and there was a latticeo of wood outside in front of the portico. 26And there were windows o-with frames-o and palm trees on the flanking walls of the portico on either side [of the entrance] o-and [on] the Temple’s side chambers and [on] the lattices.-o
42 He took me out, by way of the northern gate, into the outer court, and he led me [westward] up to a a-complex of chambers-a that ran parallel to the northern ends of the vacant space and the structure. 2The widthb of its façade—c-its north side, the one from which it was entered-c—was 100 cubits, and its depthb was 50 cubits. 3At right angles to the 20 cubitsd of the inner court and to the pavement of the outer court,e the complex rose ledge by ledgef in three tiers. 4There was an areaway, 10 cubits wide and g-a road of one cubit,-g running along the inner-court side of the chamber complex, but its entrances were on its north side. 5Here its upper chambers were cut back, because ledges took away from them as construc-tion proceeded backward from the bottom ones and then from the middle ones. 6For they were arranged in three tiers, and they had no columns like those of the chambers in the courts.h That is why the rise proceeded by stages: from the ground, from the bottom ones, and from the middle ones. 7In the outer court, a wall 50 cubits long ran parallel to the chamber complex up to the chambers in the outer court;h 8for the chambers in the outer court were themselves 50 cubits deep, thus completing 100 cubits alongside the edifice.i 9Thus, at the foot of that complex of chambers ran a passagej—k-of a width set by the wall in the outer court-k—which one entered from the east in order to gain access to them from the outer court.
10There was another chamber complex to the eastl of the vacant space and the structure, 11likewise with a passage in front—just like the complex on the north side, with which this one agreed in widthb and depthb and in the exact layout of its exits and entrances. 12Accordingly, the entrances to the chamber complex on the south side were approached from the east by the entrance at the head of m-the corresponding passage along the matching wall.-m
13And he said to me, “The northern chambers and the southern cham-bers by the vacant space are the consecrated chambers in which the priests who have access to the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall deposit the most holy offerings—the meal offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings, for the place is consecrated. 14When the priests enter, they shall not proceed from the consecrated place to the outer court without first leaving here the vestments in which they minister; for the [vestments] are consecrated. Before proceeding to the area open to the people,n they shall put on other garments.”
15When he had finished the measurements of the inner Temple [area], he led me out by way of the gate which faces east, and he measured off the entire area. 16He measured the east side with the measuring rod, 500 [cubits]—in rods, by the measuring rod. He turned 17[and] measured the north side: 500 [cubits]—in rods, by the measuring rod. He turned 18[and] measured the south side: 500 [cubits]—in rods, by the measuring rod. 19Then he turned to the west side [and] measured it: 500 cubits—in rods, by the measuring rod. 20Thus he measured it on the four sides; it had a wall completely surrounding it, 500 [cubits] long o-on each side,-o to separate the consecrated from the unconsecrated.
43 Then he led me to a gate, the gate that faced east. 2And there, coming from the east with a roar like the roar of mighty waters, was the Presence of the God of Israel, and the earth was lit up by His Presence. 3The vision was like the vision I had seen when Ia came to destroy the city, the very same vision that I had seen by the Chebar Canal. Forthwith, I fell on my face.
4The Presence of the LORD entered the Temple by the gate that faced eastward. 5A spirit carried me into the inner court, and lo, the Presence of the LORD filled the Temple; 6and I heard speech addressed to me from the Temple, though [the]
