1
Then he brought me to the nave, and measured the pilasters; on each side six cubits was the width of the pilasters.
2
The width of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. He measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.
3
Then he went into the inner room and measured the pilasters of the entrance, two cubits; and the width of the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls of the entrance, seven cubits.
4
He measured the depth of the room, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, This is the most holy place.
5
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
6
The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
7
The passageway of the side chambers widened from story to story; for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one.
8
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
9
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and the free space between the side chambers of the temple
10
and the chambers of the court was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.
11
The side chambers opened onto the area left free, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the width of the part that was left free was five cubits all around.