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Under these rooms was the entrance to the east side, leading in from the outer courtyard.
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In the width of the courtyard wall on the east, facing the separated yard and facing the building, there were rooms,
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with a passageway in front of them, similar to the rooms on the north. They were the same length and width and had similarly made exits and entrances.
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By the entrances of the rooms on the south there was an entrance at the end of the passage, the passageway right in front of the wall, toward the eastern entrances.
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Then he said to me, "The north and south [blocks of] rooms in front of the separated yard are the holy rooms where the cohanim who approach ADONAI will eat the especially holy things. This is where they will put the especially holy things - the grain offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings; for the place is holy.
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When the cohanim come, they will not go out of the [Especially] Holy Place into the outer courtyard; rather, they will leave [in these rooms] the clothes they use when ministering, because they are holy. They will put on other clothes and only then approach the areas permitted to the people."
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After he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the gate facing east and measured the whole area.
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He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.
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He measured the north side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.
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He measured the south side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.
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He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet with the measuring rod.