KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 42
The rooms for the priests. Their use.
1And he brought me out into the outer court northward. And he brought me into the room that was across from the separate area, which was in front of the building to the way of the north.
2To the face of its length was a hundred cubits, toward the north door, and fifty cubits wide.
3Across from the twenty cubits which were to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which was to the outer court, was gallery on the face of gallery, in three stories.
4And before the rooms was a walk ten cubits wide, to the inside, a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.
5And the upper rooms were shorter, for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building.
6For they were in three stories, and there were no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So the third was made narrower than the lower and middle stories from the ground.
7And the wall that was outside near the rooms the way of the outer court, on the face of the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.
8For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And, behold, in the face of the temple was a hundred cubits.
9And under these rooms was the entrance on the east side as one goes into them from the outer court.
10In the width of the wall of the court the way of the east, to the face of the separate area, and to the face of the building were rooms.
11And the way before them looked like the rooms which were the way of the north, as their length so their width. And all their exits were as their patterns and as their doors.
12And as the doors of the rooms that were the way of the south was a door in the head of the way, the way directly in the face of the wall, the way of the east, as one enters them.
13And he said to me, The north rooms, the south rooms which are to the face of the separate area, they are holy rooms, there where the priests shall eat, who approach to Jehovah, the holiest of the holy things. There they shall lay the holiest of the holy things, even the food offering and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.
14In the going in of priests, and they shall not go out of the sanctuary into the court of the court, but they shall lay their clothes there by which they minister by them, for they are holy. They shall put on other clothes and shall approach to that which is for the people.
15And he finished measuring the inner house. And he brought me forth the way of the gate whose face is the way of the east, and measured round about and round about.
16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed, round about and round about.
17He measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed, round about.
18He measured the south side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
19He turned to the west side, measuring five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
20By the four sides he measured it. It had a wall round about and round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred wide, to separate between the holy and the common.
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