Ezekiel 41 (New American Standard)

The Inner Temple

1 Then he ¹brought me to the ^a2nave and measured the ³side pillars ; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the ^bside pillar. 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the ^csides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured ^dthe length of the nave, ⁴forty cubits, and the width, ⁵twenty cubits. 3 Then he went ^e6inside and measured each ⁷side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. 4 He measured its length, ⁸twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the ⁹nave ; and he said to me, "This is the ¹⁰most holy place." 5 Then he measured the wall of the ^ftemple, six cubits ; and the width of the ¹¹side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side. 6 ¹²The side chambers were in three stories, ^gone above another, and ^hthirty in each story ; and ⁱthe side chambers ¹³extended to the wall which stood on ^jtheir inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself. 7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ¹⁴structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher ; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ^ksecond story. 8 I saw also that the house had a raised ^lplatform all around ; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of ¹⁵six ^mlong cubits in height. 9 The ⁿthickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ¹⁶free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple 10 and the outer ¹⁷chambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple on every side. 11 The ^odoorways of the ^pside chambers toward the ¹⁸free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south ; and the width of the ¹⁹free space was five cubits all around. 12 The ²⁰building that was in front of the ²¹separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide ; and the wall of the building was five cubits ^qthick all around, and its length was ninety cubits. 13 Then he measured the temple, a ²²hundred cubits long ; the ²³separate area with the ²⁴building and its walls were also a ²⁵hundred cubits long. 14 Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate ^rareas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits. 15 He measured the length of the ²⁶building ^salong the front of the ²⁷separate area behind it, with a ^t28gallery on each side, a hundred cubits ; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. 16 The ²⁹thresholds, the ^u30latticed windows and the ^v31galleries round about their ³²three stories, opposite the threshold, were ³³paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered ), 17 over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. 18 It was ^wcarved with ³⁴cherubim and ³⁵palm trees ; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, 19 a ³⁶man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young ³⁷lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side ; they were ^xcarved on all the house all around. 20 From the ground to above the entrance ³⁸cherubim and ³⁹palm trees were ^ycarved, as well as on the wall of the nave. 21 The ⁴⁰doorposts of the ⁴¹nave were square ; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. 22 The ⁴²altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits ; its corners, its ^zbase and its ^aasides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the ⁴³table that is before the LORD." 23 The ⁴⁴nave and the ⁴⁵sanctuary each had a double ⁴⁶door. 24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two ^bb47swinging leaves ; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 25 Also there were ^cccarved on them, on the doors of the nave, ⁴⁸cherubim and ⁴⁹palm trees like those ^ddcarved on the walls ; and there was a ^ee50threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside . 26 There were ^ff51latticed windows and ⁵²palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the ⁵³porch ; thus were the ⁵⁴side chambers of the house and the ^ggthresholds.