1 Depois disso o homem conduziu-me para o lado norte, para o pátio externo, e levou-me aos quartos opostos ao pátio do templo e ao muro externo do lado norte.

2 O prédio cuja porta dava para o norte tinha cinqüenta metros de comprimento e vinte e cinco metros de largura.

3 Tanto na secção que ficava a dez metros de distância do pátio interno quanto na secção oposta ao piso do pátio externo, havia uma galeria frente à outra nos três andares.

4 Em frente dos quartos havia uma passagem interna com cinco metros de largura e cinqüenta metros de comprimento. Suas portas ficavam no lado norte.

5 Ora, os quartos superiores eram mais estreitos, pois as galerias tomavam mais espaço deles do que dos quartos do andar inferior e médio.

6 Os quartos do terceiro andar não tinham colunas, ao passo que os pátios as tinham. Por isso a área deles era menor do que a dos quartos do andar inferior e o do meio.

7 Havia uma parede externa paralela aos quartos e ao pátio externo; sua extensão era de vinte e cinco metros, em frente dos quartos.

8 A carreira de quartos junto ao pátio interno tinha vinte e cinco metros de comprimento, e a que ficava mais próximo do santuário tinha cinqüenta metros de comprimento.

9 Os quartos de baixo tinham entrada pelo lado leste, quando se vem do pátio externo.

10 No lado sul, ao longo do comprimento da parede do pátio externo, adjacentes ao pátio do templo e no lado oposto do muro externo, havia quartos

11 com uma passagem em frente deles. Eram como os quartos do lado norte; tinham o mesmo comprimento e a mesma largura, com saídas e dimensões semelhantes. As portas do lado norte

12 eram semelhantes às portas dos quartos do lado sul. Havia uma entrada no início do corredor paralelo ao muro correspondente que se estendia para leste; e havia uma entrada para os quartos.

13 Depois ele me disse: "Os quartos do norte e do sul que dão para o pátio do templo são os quartos dos sacerdotes, onde os sacerdotes que se aproximam do Senhor comerão as ofertas santíssimas. Ali porão as ofertas santíssimas: as ofertas de cereal, as ofertas pelo pecado e as ofertas pela culpa, pois o local é santo.

14 Assim que os sacerdotes entrarem nos recintos sagrados, só poderão ir para o pátio externo após tirarem as vestes com as quais ministram, pois elas são santas. Porão outras vestes antes de se aproximarem dos lugares reservados para o povo".

15 Quando ele acabou de medir o que havia dentro da área do templo, levou-me para fora pela porta leste e mediu a área em redor:

16 Mediu o lado leste com a vara de medir; e ele tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros.

17 Mediu o lado norte; ele tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros, segundo a vara de medir.

18 Mediu o lado sul; e tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros, segundo a vara de medir.

19 Depois ele foi para o lado oeste e o mediu; ele tinha duzentos e cinqüenta metros, segundo a vara de medir.

20 Assim ele mediu a área nos quatro lados. Em torno dela havia um muro de duzentos e cinqüenta metros de comprimento e duzentos e cinqüenta metros de largura, para separar o santo do comum.

1 And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

3 Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

6 For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

7 And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

8 For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

9 And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

11 And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

12 And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

13 And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.

14 When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

15 And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

16 He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

17 And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

18 And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

19 And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

20 He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.