1 ¶ Then he took me into the outer court, on the northern road: and he took me into the rooms that were opposite the temple yard, facing the building on the north.

2 Before the long side of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.

3 Opposite an area of twenty cubits of the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, were galleries facing each other in three stories.

4 And before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits width toward the inside, and one hundred cubits long; and their doors were on the north.

5 Now the upper rooms were narrower: for the galleries took off from these, more than the lower, and the middle stories of the building.

6 For they were in three stories, but had no pillars like the pillars in the courts: that is why the lowest and middle levels were set back from the ground up.

7 And the wall that was opposite the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

8 For the row of rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: while the row in front of the temple was one hundred cubits.

9 And below these rooms was a entrance from the east side, as one comes to them from the outer court.

10 The rooms were built into the wall of the court toward the east, in front of the open area, and in front of the building,

11 With a walk in front of them; looking just like the rooms that were toward the north, with the same length, and width: with similar exits, designs, and doors.

12 And like the doors to the rooms that were on the south side, there was an entrance where the walk started, in front of the corresponding wall as one enters on the east side.

13 Then he said to me, The northern rooms and the southern rooms, opposite the open area, are holy rooms, where the priests who approach to the LORD eat the most holy things: there they put the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

14 When the priests enter there, then they should not leave the holy place to go into the outer court, without leaving there the garments in which they serve; for they are holy; and putting on other clothes, before approaching the area where the people are.

15 ¶ Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple area, he took me out through the gate that faces the east, and measured it all around.

16 He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred cubits, measured by the measuring rod all around.

17 He measured the north side, five hundred cubits, by the measuring rod all around.

18 He measured the south side, five hundred cubits, by the measuring rod.

19 He came around to the west side, and measured it at five hundred cubits with the measuring rod.

20 He measured it on all four sides: it had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long, and five hundred wide, to divide that which was holy from the common area.