Ezekiel 42

₁Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north. ₂The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits. ₃Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. ₄And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north. ₅Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. ₆For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. ₇And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long. ₈For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long. ₉Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

₁₀In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers ₁₁with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors, ₁₂as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.

₁₃Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy. ₁₄When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

₁₅Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. ₁₆He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. ₁₇He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. ₁₈He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. ₁₉Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. ₂₀He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.