¹Then he brought me out into the outer court , the way towards the north . Then he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place , and which was opposite the building towards the north .

²Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door , and the width was fifty cubits.[#42:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.]

³Opposite 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 storeys.

⁴Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward , a way of one cubit; and their doors were towards the north .

⁵Now the upper rooms were shorter ; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building .

⁶For they were in three storeys, 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.

⁷The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms , towards the outer court before the rooms , was fifty cubits long .

⁸For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold , those facing the temple were one hundred cubits.

⁹From under these rooms was the entry on the east side , as one goes into them from the outer court .

¹⁰In the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east , before the separate place , and before the building , there were rooms .

¹¹The way before them was like the appearance of the rooms which were towards the north . Their length and width were the same . All their exits had the same arrangement and doors .

¹²Like the doors of the rooms that were towards the south was a door at the head of the way , even the way directly before the wall towards the east , as one enters into them .

¹³Then 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 the LORD 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 .

¹⁴When 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 .”

¹⁵Now when he had finished measuring the inner house , he brought me out by the way of the gate which faces towards the east , and measured it all around .

¹⁶He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds , with the measuring reed all around .

¹⁷He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around .

¹⁸He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed .

¹⁹He turned about to the west side , and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed .

²⁰He 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 .