³ Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.^(A)

⁴ As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east,^(A)

³ Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the entryway of the temple. The Lord^[a] called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing case at his side^(A)

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.^(A)