Chapter 42

Then he brought me forth⁵⁵ into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought⁵⁵ me into the chamber that [was] over against the separate place, and which [was] before the building toward the north.

Before the length of an 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 utter 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 toward the north.

Now the upper chambers [were] shorter:⁷ for the galleries were higher⁴ than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

For they [were] in three³⁰ [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the building] was straitened⁸ more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

And 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.

For the length of the chambers that [were] in the utter court [was] fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple [were] an hundred cubits.

And from under these chambers [was] the entry ^{935 56} on the east side, as one goeth² into them from the utter court.

The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the court toward 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] toward the north, as long as they, [and] as broad as ⁷³⁴¹ 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] 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 into² them.

Then said⁴ 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 eat⁴ the most holy things: there shall they lay⁵⁵ the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place [is] holy.

When the priests enter² therein, then shall they not go out⁴ of the holy [place] into the utter court, but there they shall lay⁵⁵ their garments wherein they minister;¹⁷ for they [are] holy; and shall put on^{1 3847 4} other garments, and shall approach¹ to [those things] which [are] for the people.

Now when he had made an end¹⁴ of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth⁵² toward the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east, and measured¹ it round about. ⁵⁴³⁹

He measured¹ the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred ⁵²⁰ reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

He measured¹ the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

He measured¹ the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

He turned about¹ to the west side, [and] measured¹ five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

He measured¹ it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, ⁵⁴³⁹ five hundred [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation⁵³ between the sanctuary and the profane place.