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 Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits. 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the three stories. 4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground. 7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, was fifty cubits long. 8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, those facing the temple were one hundred cubits. 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 toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms. 11 The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north. Their length and width were the same. All their exits had the same arrangement and doors. 12 Like the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even 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 opposite the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal 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 until they 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."

15 Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces toward the east, and measured it all around. 16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around. 17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around. 18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred cubits, and the width five hundred cubits, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

1 Depois disto fez-me sair para fora, ao átrio exterior, que dá para o norte; e me levou às câmaras que estavam defronte do largo vazio, e que estavam defronte do edifício, do lado do norte.

2 Do comprimento de cem côvados era esse edifício, e da largura de cinqüenta côvados.

3 Em frente dos vinte côvados, que tinha o átrio interior, e em frente do pavimento que tinha o átrio exterior, havia galeria contra galeria em três andares.

4 E diante das câmaras havia um passeio que dava para o átrio interior, e que tinha dez côvados de largura e cem côvados de comprimento; e as suas portas davam para o norte.

5 Ora, as câmaras superiores eram mais estreitas; porque as galerias tomavam destas mais espaço do que das de baixo e das do meio do edifício.

6 Porque elas eram de três andares e não tinham colunas como as colunas dos átrios; por isso desde o chão se iam estreitando mais do que as de baixo e as do meio.

7 No lado de fora, em paralelo às câmaras e defronte delas no caminho do átrio exterior, havia um muro que tinha cinqüenta côvados de comprimento.

8 Pois o comprimento da série de câmaras que estavam no átrio exterior era de cinqüenta côvados, enquanto o da série que estava defronte do templo era de cem côvados.

9 Por debaixo destas câmaras estava a entrada do lado do oriente, para quem entra nelas do átrio exterior.

10 Na grossura do muro do átrio que dava para o oriente, diante do lugar separado, e diante do edifício, havia também câmaras,

11 com um caminho diante delas, que eram da mesma feição das câmaras que davam para o norte, sendo do mesmo comprimento, e da mesma largura, com as mesmas saídas, disposições e portas.

12 E conforme eram as portas das câmaras que davam para o sul, era também a porta no topo do caminho, isto é, do caminho bem em frente do muro à direita para quem entra.

13 Então me disse: As câmaras do norte, e as câmaras do sul, que estão diante do lugar separado, são câmaras santas, em que os sacerdotes que se chegam ao Senhor comerão as coisas santíssimas. Ali porão as coisas santíssimas, as ofertas de cereais, as ofertas pelo pecado, e as ofertas pela culpa; porque o lugar é santo.

14 Quando os sacerdotes entrarem, não sairão do santuário para o átrio exterior, mas porão ali as suas vestiduras em que ministram, porque elas são santas; e vestir-se-ão doutras vestiduras, e assim se aproximarão do lugar pertencente ao povo.

15 Tendo ele acabado de medir o templo interior, fez-me sair pelo caminho da porta oriental; e o mediu em redor.

16 Mediu o lado oriental com a cana de medir, quinhentas canas de largura.

17 Mediu o lado do norte, quinhentas canas, com a cana de medir.

18 Mediu também o lado do sul, quinhentas canas, com a cana de medir.

19 Deu uma volta para o lado do ocidente, e mediu quinhentas canas, com a cana de medir.

20 Mediu-o pelos quatro lados. Havia um muro em redor, de quinhentas canas de comprimento, e quinhentas de largura, para fazer separação entre o santo e o profano.