Chambers for the Priests
1 Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building toward the north. 2 Before the length of 150 feet was the north door, and the width was 75 feet. 3 Opposite the 30 foot area, which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was an arrangement of gallery on top of gallery to the third floor. 4 Before the rooms was a walkway of fifteen feet wide at distance of eighteen inches, and their entrances faced north.
5 Now the upper rooms were narrower because the galleries took up space, from the lower and the middle part of the the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the court pillars. Therefore the uppermost was set back from the ground more than the lowest and the middle stories. 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court in front of the rooms, was 75 feet long. 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was 75 feet, and those facing the temple were 150 feet. 9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.
10 In the thickness of the wall of the court that faced east, opposite the separate place, and opposite the building, there were rooms. 11 The walkway in front of them looked like the rooms which faced north. Their length and width was the same as the others, and all their exits and entrances were done in the same fashion. 12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the walkway, the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are in front of the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but they shall lay their garments in which they minister there, for they are holy. Then they shall put on other garments and shall approach that which is for the people.”
Outer Measurements
15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces east and measured all around it. 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring rod 875 feet, with the measuring rod all around. 17 He measured on the north side 875 feet with the measuring rod all around. 18 He measured on the south side 875 feet with the measuring rod. 19 He turned around to the west side, and measured 875 feet with the measuring rod. 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length 875, and the width 875, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.