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42-43 and where the meat was placed until it was sacrificed on the altar.[a]

Next to the tables in the entrance room were four stone tables 50 centimeters high and 75 centimeters square; the equipment used for killing the animals was kept on top of these tables. All around the walls of this room was a 75-millimeter shelf.[b]

The Rooms Belonging to the Priests

44 The man then took me to the inner courtyard, where I saw two buildings, one beside the inner gate on the north and the other beside the inner gate on the south.[c] 45 He said, “The building beside the north gate belongs to the priests who serve in the temple,

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Footnotes

  1. 40.42,43 where the meat … altar: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 40.42,43 was a 75-millimeter shelf: Or “were 75-millimeter pegs.”
  3. 40.44 south: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 44.

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