The Inner Temple
1 Then he brought me to
1the nave and measured the
2jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs.
2
And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave,
3forty cubits, and its breadth,
4twenty cubits.
3
Then he went
5into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits.
4
And he measured
6the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across
7the nave. And he said to me, "This is
8the Most Holy Place."
5
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of
9the side chambers, four cubits,
10all around the temple.
6
And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another,
11thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers,
12so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
7
And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and
13so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.
8
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of
14six long cubits.
9
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits.
15The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the
10
16other chambers was a breadth of
17twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.
11
And the doors of the
18side chambers opened on
19the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.
12
The building that was facing
20the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
13
Then he measured the temple,
21a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;
14
also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.
15
Then he measured the length of
22the building facing the yard that was at the back and
23its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,
16
24the thresholds and
25the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),
17
to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.
18
It was carved of
26cherubim and
27palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:
19
28a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around.
20
From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.
21
The doorposts of
29the nave were squared, and in front of
30the Holy Place was something resembling
22
31an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is
32the table that is before the LORD."
23
The nave and the Holy Place had each
33a double door.
24
The double doors had two leaves apiece,
34two swinging leaves for each door.
25
And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees,
35such as were carved on the walls. And there was
36a canopy of wood in front of
37the vestibule outside.
26
And there were
38narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule,
39the side chambers of the temple, and the
40canopies.