Wycliffe WYC
New International Reader's Version NIRV
1 And he led me out into the outermore foreyard, by the way leading to the north; and he led me into the chamber, that was against the building separated, and against the house going to the north; (And he led me out to the outer courtyard, by the way leading to the north; and he led me into the room that was facing the open space, and the building/s to the north;)
1
Then the man led me north into the outer courtyard of the temple. He brought me to the rooms that were across from the inner courtyard. They were across from the outer wall of the temple on the north side.
2 in the face, an hundred cubits of length of the (side of the) door of the north, and fifty cubits of breadth, (on its front, the side of the door on the north was a hundred cubits in length, and fifty cubits in breadth,)
2
The rooms were in a building north of the temple. The building had a door that faced north. It was 175 feet long. It was 87 and a half feet wide.
3 (over) against twenty cubits of the inner foreyard, and (over) against the pavement arrayed with stone of the outermore foreyard, where a porch was joined to (a) three-fold porch.
3
One row of rooms was next to the inner courtyard. The other row was across from the sidewalk of the outer courtyard. Each room was 35 feet long. Walkways in front of each row faced each other on all three floors.
4 And before the chambers was a walking (place) of ten cubits of breadth, beholding to the inner things of the way of one (hundred) cubit(s). And the doors of those to the north, (And before the rooms was a walking place of ten cubits in breadth, and a length of one hundred cubits, facing the inner courtyard. And their doors, or their entrances, faced north,)
4
Between the two rows was an inner sidewalk. It was 17 and a half feet wide and 175 feet long. Each of the rooms had a door on the north side.
5 where (the) chambers were lower in the higher things; for those bare up the porches that appeared on high of those from the lower things, and from the middle things of the building.
5
The rooms on the top floor were narrower than the others. The walkways took up more space from them than they did from the rooms on the other two floors.
6 For those were of three stages, and had not pillars, as were the pillars of [the] foreyards; therefore those stood on high from the lower things, and from the middle things from [the] earth, by fifty cubits. (For they were of three stages, and did not have pillars, like the pillars of the courtyards; and so they stood on high from the ground, from the lower things, and from the middle things.)
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The courtyards had pillars. But the rooms on the third floor didn't. So their floor space was smaller than the space in the rooms on the other floors.
7 And the outermore hall closing the walking place was by the chambers, that were in the way of the outermore foreyard, before the chambers; the length thereof was of fifty cubits. (And the outside wall enclosing the walking place was by the rooms, that were on the way of the outer courtyard, and in front of the rooms; its length was fifty cubits.)
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The building had an outer wall that was even with the outer row of rooms and with the outer courtyard. The wall continued east of the outer row for 87 and a half feet.
8 For the length of the chambers of the outermore foreyard was of fifty cubits, and the length before the face of the temple was of an hundred cubits. (For the length of the rooms of the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and the length of the rooms facing the Temple was a hundred cubits.)
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So there were two rows of rooms. The row next to the outer courtyard was 87 and a half feet long. The one closest to the temple was 175 feet long.
9 And under these chambers was an entering from the east, of men entering into those, from the outermore foreyard, (And under these rooms was an entrance from the east, for people entering into them, from the outer courtyard,)
9
The first floor of the building had an entrance on the east side. It led to the outer courtyard.
10 in the breadth of the wall of the foreyard that was (over) against the east way, into the face of the building separated. And (the) chambers were before the building, (in the breadth of the wall of the courtyard that was facing east, opposite the open space, and the building. And the rooms were in the front of the building,)
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There were also two rows of rooms in a building next to the south side of the inner courtyard. The building was across from the south wall of the outer courtyard.
11 and a way was before the face of those, by the likeness of (the) chambers that were in the way of the north; by the length of those, so was also the breadth of those. And all the entering of those, and the likenesses and the doors of those, (and a way was in front of them, like the rooms that were facing north; their length was like their breadth. And all their entrances, and their forms, and their doors,)
11
Between the two rows was an inner sidewalk. The rooms were like the ones in the north building. They were as long and wide as the rooms on the north. The doorways of the rooms on the south were like the ones on the north.
12 were like the doors of (the) chambers that were in the way beholding to the south; a door was in the head of the way, which way was before the porch separated to men entering by the east way. (were like the doors of the rooms that were facing south; a door was at the head of the way, which way was in front of the porch for people entering from the east.)
12
People entered the south rooms through the doorway at the east end of the inner sidewalk. The south wall continued east of the outer row of rooms.
13 And he said to me, The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, that be before the building separated, these be holy chambers, in which the priests be clothed, that nigh to the Lord into the holy of holy things; there they shall put the holy of holy things, and offerings for sin, and for trespass; for it is an holy place. (And he said to me, The rooms of the north, and the rooms of the south, that face the open space, these be the holy rooms, in which the priests, who come near to the Lord, may eat the holy offerings; yea, they shall put the holy offerings, and the sin offerings, and the trespass offerings there; for it is a holy place.)
13
The man said to me, "The north and south rooms face the inner courtyard. They are the priests' rooms. That is where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the very holy offerings. They will also store them there. That includes the grain offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings. This place is holy.
14 Soothly when priests have entered, they shall not go out of (the) holy things into the outermore foreyard; and there they shall put up their clothes in which they minister, for those be holy; and they shall be clothed in other clothes, and so they shall go forth to the people. (And when the priests have entered, they shall not go out of the Holy Place, or out of the Temple, into the outer courtyard, until they have put away, or have left, their clothes there, in which they minister, for those clothes be holy; and after that they be clothed in other clothes, then they shall go out to the people.)
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"The priests who enter these holy rooms must leave behind the clothes they served in. Then they can go into the outer courtyard. The clothes they served in are holy. So they must put other clothes on. They have to do that before they go near the places where other people go."
15 And when he had filled the measures of the inner house, he led me out by the way of the gate that beheld to the east way; and he meted it on each side by compass. (And when he had finished the measurements of the inner temple, he led me out by the gateway that faced east; and he measured it on each side all around.)
15
The man finished measuring what was inside the temple area. Then he led me out through the east gate. He measured all around the area.
16 Forsooth he meted against the east wind with the reed of measure, by compass five hundred reeds [five hundred rods], in a reed of measure by compass. (And he measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred cubits in length.)
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He measured the east side with his measuring rod. It was 875 feet long.
17 And he meted against the wind of the north five hundred reeds [five hundred rods], in the reed of measure by compass. (And he measured the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred cubits in length.)
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He measured the north side. It was 875 feet long.
18 And at the south wind he meted five hundred reeds [five hundred rods], with a reed of measure by compass. (And he measured the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred cubits in length.)
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He measured the south side. It was 875 feet long.
19 And at the west wind he meted five hundred reeds [five hundred rods], with the reed of measure. (And he measured the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred cubits in length.)
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Finally, he turned and measured the west side. It was 875 feet long.
20 By (the) four winds he meted the wall thereof on each side by compass, the length of five hundred [cubits], and the breadth of five hundred [cubits], (the wall) separating betwixt the saintuary and the place of the common people. (On all four sides he measured its wall, on each side all around, the length of five hundred cubits, and the breadth of five hundred cubits. The wall was to separate the place for the sanctuary, from the place for the common people.)
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So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it. The wall was 875 feet long and 875 feet wide. It separated what was holy from what was not.
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