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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.
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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:
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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.
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And under these cells was the entry from the east, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
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In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.