Chapter 42

A description of the courts, chambers, and other places belonging to the temple.

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   And he brought me forth into the outward court, by the way that leadeth to the north, and he brought me into the chamber that was over-against the separate building, and over-against the house toward the north.

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   In the face of the north door was the length of a hundred cubits: and the breadth of fifty cubits.

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   Over-against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over-against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone, where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.

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   And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north:

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   Where were the store-chambers lower above: because they bore up the galleries, which appeared above out of them from the lower parts, and from the midst of the building.

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   For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower places, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.

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   And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.

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   For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.

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   And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the east, for them that went into them out of the outward court.

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    In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward the east, over-against the separate building, and there were chambers before the building.

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    And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward the north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the going is to them, and their fashions, and their doors were alike.

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    According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before the porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in.

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    And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers of the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and the offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.

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    And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not go out of the holy places into the outward court: but there they shall lay their vestments, wherein they minister, for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and so they shall go forth to the people.

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    Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and he measured it on every side round about.

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    And he measured toward the east, with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

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    And he measured toward the north, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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    And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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    And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

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    By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side round about, five hundred cubits long, and five hundred cubits broad, making a separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people.