New Century Version NCV
Good News Translation GNT
1 Then the man led me north out into the outer courtyard and to the rooms across from the private area and the building.
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Then the man took me into the outer courtyard and led me to a building on the north side of the Temple, not far from the building at the west end of the Temple.
2 These rooms on the north side were one hundred seventy-five feet long and eighty-seven and one-half feet wide.
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This building was 168 feet long and 84 feet wide.
3 There was thirty-five feet of the inner courtyard between them and the Temple. On the other side, they faced the stone pavement of the outer courtyard. The rooms were built in three stories like steps and had balconies.
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On one side it faced the space 34 feet wide which was alongside the Temple, and on the other side it faced the pavement of the outer courtyard. It was built on three levels, each one set further back than the one below it.
4 There was a path on the north side of the rooms, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide and one hundred seventy-five feet long. Doors led into the rooms from this path.
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Along the north side of this building was a passageway 16 feet wide and 168 feet long, with entrances on that side.
5 The top rooms were narrower, because the balconies took more space from them. The rooms on the first and second stories of the building were wider.
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The rooms at the upper level of the building were narrower than those at the middle and lower levels because they were set further back.
6 The rooms were on three stories. They did not have pillars like the pillars of the courtyards. So the top rooms were farther back than those on the first and second stories.
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The rooms at all three levels were on terraces and were not supported by columns like the other buildings in the courtyard.
7 There was a wall outside parallel to the rooms and to the outer courtyard. It ran in front of the rooms for eighty-seven and one-half feet.
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At the lower level the outer wall of the building was solid for 84 feet, half its length; and there were rooms in the remaining 84 feet. At the top level there were rooms in the entire length of the building.
8 The row of rooms along the outer courtyard was eighty-seven and one-half feet long, and the rooms that faced the Temple were about one hundred seventy-five feet long.
9 The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side so a person could enter them from the outer courtyard,
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Below these rooms at the east end of the building, where the wall of the courtyard began, there was an entrance into the outer courtyard. At the south side of the Temple there was an identical building not far from the building at the west end of the Temple.
10 at the start of the wall beside the courtyard. There were rooms on the south side, which were across from the private area and the building.
11 These rooms had a path in front of them. They were like the rooms on the north with the same length and width and the same doors.
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In front of the rooms there was a passageway just like the one on the north side. It had the same measurements, the same design, and the same kind of entrances.
12 The doors of the south rooms were like the doors of the north rooms. There was an entrance at the open end of a path beside the wall, so a person could enter at the east end.
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There was a door under the rooms on the south side of the building, at the east end where the wall began.
13 The man said to me, "The north and south rooms across from the private area are holy rooms. There the priests who go near the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings: the grain offerings, sin offerings, and the penalty offerings, because the place is holy.
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The man said to me, "Both these buildings are holy. In them the priests who enter the Lord's presence eat the holiest offerings. Because the rooms are holy, the priests will place the holiest offerings there: the offerings of grain and the sacrifices offered for sin or as repayment offerings.
14 The priests who enter the Holy Place must leave their serving clothes there before they go into the outer courtyard, because these clothes are holy. After they put on other clothes, they may go to the part of the Temple area which is for the people."
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When priests have been in the Temple and want to go to the outer courtyard, they must leave in these rooms the holy clothing they wore while serving the Lord. They must put on other clothes before going out to the area where the people gather."
15 When the man finished measuring inside the Temple area, he brought me out through the east gateway. He measured the area all around.
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When the man had finished measuring inside the Temple area, he took me out through the east gate and then measured the outside of the area.
16 The man measured the east side with the measuring stick; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
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He took the measuring rod and measured the east side, and it was 840 feet.
17 He measured the north side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
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Then he measured the north side, the south side, and the west side; each side had the same length, 840 feet,
18 He measured the south side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
19 He went around to the west side; it measured eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
20 So he measured the Temple area on all four sides. The Temple area had a wall all around it that was eight hundred seventy-five feet long and eight hundred seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from that which was not holy.
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so that the wall enclosed a square 840 feet on each side. The wall served to separate what was holy from what was not.
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.