42 Then
he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and
he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place,
and which was before the building toward the north. 2 Before
the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was
fifty cubits. 3 Over
against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against
the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery
in three stories. 4 And
before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of
one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5 Now
the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these,
than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. 6 For
they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the
courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and
the middlemost from the ground. 7 And
the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter
court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8 For
the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits:
and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9 And
from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth
into them from the utter court. 10 The
chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,
over against the separate place, and over against the building.
11
And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were
toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings
out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 And
according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a
door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward
the east, as one entereth into them. 13 Then
said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before
the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach
unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most
holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; for the place is holy. 14 When
the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place
into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they
minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall
approach to those things which are for the people. 15 Now
when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth
toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round
about. 16 He
measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed round about. 17 He
measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round
about. 18 He
measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 He
turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed. 20 He
measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds
long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary
and the profane place.