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The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the temple yard and opposite the building on the north.
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And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.
2 The length of the building that was on the north side was one hundred cubits, and the width fifty cubits.
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On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,
3 Across the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, the chambers rose gallery by gallery in three stories.
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Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.
4 In front of the chambers was a passage on the inner side, ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits deep, and its entrances were on the north.
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And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.
5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.
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And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.
6 For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; for this reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.
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For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.
7 There was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
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And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were one hundred cubits long.
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For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.
9 At the foot of these chambers ran a passage that one entered from the east in order to enter them from the outer court.
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And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.
10 The width of the passage was fixed by the wall of the court. On the south also, opposite the vacant area and opposite the building, there were chambers
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(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.
11 with a passage in front of them; they were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and width, with the same exits and arrangements and doors.
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And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.
12 So the entrances of the chambers to the south were entered through the entrance at the head of the corresponding passage, from the east, along the matching wall.
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And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.
13 Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the vacant area are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings; there they shall deposit the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.
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And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter the holy place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the vestments in which they minister, for these are holy; they shall put on other garments before they go near to the area open to the people."
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When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.
15 When he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faces east, and measured the temple area all around.
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And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.
16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
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He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
17 Then he turned and measured the north side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
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And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
18 Then he turned and measured the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
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And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
19 Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
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And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to make a separation between the holy and the common.
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He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.
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