1Then the man brought me to the main hall. There he measured the doorposts. Each of them was 3.6 metres wide.2The entrance was 6 metres wide. Each of its side walls was almost 3 metres wide. He also measured the main hall. It was 24 metres long and 12 metres wide.3Then he went into the Most Holy Room. There he measured the doorposts at the entrance. Each one of them was 1.2 metres wide. The entrance itself was 3.6 metres wide. Each of its side walls was a little over 4.2 metres wide.4He also measured the Most Holy Room. It was 12 metres long and 12 metres wide. He said to me, ‘This is the Most Holy Room.’ It was beyond the back wall of the main hall.5Then the man measured the wall of the temple. It was 3.6 metres thick. Each side room around the temple was 2.4 metres wide.6The side rooms were on three floors. There were 30 rooms on each floor. Ledges had been built all around the wall of the temple. So the floor beams of the side rooms rested on the ledges. The beams didn’t go into the temple wall.7The side rooms of the temple were wider as we went up floor by floor. A stairway went from the lowest floor all the way up to the top floor. It passed through the middle floor.8I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it. The base formed the foundation of the side rooms. It was as long as one measuring rod. So it was 3.6 metres long.9The outer wall of each side room was almost 3 metres thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple10and the priests’ rooms was 12 metres wide. It went all around the temple.11The side rooms had entrances from the open area. One was on the north side. Another was on the south. The base next to the open area was almost 3 metres wide all round.12There was a large building right behind the temple. It was on the west side of the outer courtyard. It was 42 metres wide. Its wall was almost 3 metres thick all round. And it was 54 metres long.13Then the man measured the temple. It was 60 metres long. The open area and the large building behind the temple also measured 60 metres.14The east side of the inner courtyard was 60 metres wide. That included the front of the temple.15Then the man measured the building that was on the west side of the outer courtyard. It was behind the temple. It was 60 metres long. That included the walkways of the building on each side. The main hall and the Most Holy Room were covered with wood.16And the porch that faced the inner courtyard was covered with wood. So were the gateways, narrow openings and walkways around these three places. The gateways and everything beyond them were covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the openings, and the openings themselves were also covered.17The area above the outside of the entrance to the Most Holy Room was decorated. There were also decorations all around the walls of the Most Holy Room.18Carved cherubim and palm trees were used in the decorations. Each cherub had a palm tree next to it. And each palm tree had a cherub next to it. Each cherub had two faces.19One was the face of a human being. It looked towards the palm tree on one side. The other was the face of a lion. It looked towards the palm tree on the other side. The decorations were carved all around the whole temple.20Cherubim and palm trees decorated the wall of the main hall. They were carved from the floor all the way up to the area above the entrance.21The main hall had a doorframe shaped like a rectangle. So did the Most Holy Room.22A wooden altar stood in the main hall. It was 1.8 metres high. It was 1.2 metres long and 1.2 metres wide. Its corners, base and sides were made out of wood. The man said to me, ‘This is the table that stands in front of the LORD.’23The main hall had double doors. So did the Most Holy Room.24Each door had two parts that could swing to and fro.25Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the main hall. The decorations were like the ones on the walls. A wooden roof went out beyond the front of the porch.26The side walls of the porch had narrow openings on top of them. Palm trees were carved on each side. A wooden roof went out beyond the entrance to each side room of the temple.
Ezekiel 41
English Standard Version
The Inner Temple
1Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits[1] was the breadth of the jambs.[2] (Eze 40:9; Eze 41:3; Eze 41:21; Eze 41:23; Eze 42:8)2And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave,[3] forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits. (1Ki 6:2; 1Ki 6:17)3Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side[4] of the entrance, seven cubits. (Eze 40:16)4And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.” (1Ki 6:5; 1Ki 6:16; 1Ki 6:20; 2Ch 3:8; Eze 41:21; Eze 41:23; Eze 45:3)5Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. (1Ki 6:5; 1Ki 6:8; Eze 41:6)6And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets[5] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. (1Ki 6:6; Eze 40:17)7And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. (1Ki 6:8)8I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits. (Eze 40:5; Eze 43:13)9The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the (Eze 41:11)10other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. (Eze 40:17; Eze 42:3)11And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around. (Eze 41:5; Eze 41:9)12The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. (Eze 41:13; Eze 42:1; Eze 42:10; Eze 42:13)13Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; (Eze 40:47)14also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.15Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries[6] on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court, (Eze 41:12; Eze 42:1; Eze 42:3; Eze 42:5)16the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), (1Ki 6:4; Isa 6:4; Eze 40:16; Eze 40:25; Eze 41:26)17to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.[7]18It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: (1Ki 6:29; 1Ki 6:32; 1Ki 6:35; 1Ki 7:36; 2Ch 3:5; Eze 40:16; Eze 40:22; Eze 40:26; Eze 40:31; Eze 40:34; Eze 40:37; Eze 41:20; Eze 41:25)19a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. (Eze 1:10; Eze 10:14)20From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.21The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling (Eze 41:1; Eze 41:4)22an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad.[8] Its corners, its base,[9] and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” (Ex 30:1; Eze 23:41; Eze 44:16; Mal 1:7; Mal 1:12; Re 11:1)23The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door. (1Ki 6:31)24The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door. (1Ki 6:34)25And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy[10] of wood in front of the vestibule outside. (1Ki 7:6; Eze 40:48; Eze 41:18; Eze 41:20)26And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies. (Eze 41:5; Eze 41:16; Eze 41:25)