¹⁵ Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries^(A) on each side; it was a hundred cubits.

The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,

³ Both in the section twenty cubits^[a] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery^(A) faced gallery at the three levels.^(B)

The Rooms for the Priests

42 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms^(A) opposite the temple courtyard^(B) and opposite the outer wall on the north side.^(C)

⁷ “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements,^(A) then you will govern my house^(B) and have charge^(C) of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.^(D)

¹⁵ When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate^(A) and measured the area all around:

⁵ Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

¹⁷ In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary

¹² The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits^[a] wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.^[b]