⁵ Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of ^(A)the side chambers, four cubits, ^(B)all around the temple.

³ Facing ^(A)the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ^(B)the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was ^(C)gallery^[a] against gallery in three stories. ⁴ And ^(D)before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and ^(E)a hundred cubits long,^[b] and ^(F)their doors were on the north. ⁵ Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. ⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. ⁷ And ^(G)there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, ^(H)fifty cubits long. ⁸ For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ^(I)the nave^[c] were ^(J)a hundred cubits long. ⁹ Below these chambers was ^(K)an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

¹⁰ In the thickness of ^(L)the wall of the court, on the south^[d] also, opposite ^(M)the yard and opposite ^(N)the building, there were ^(O)chambers ¹¹ with ^(P)a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits^[e] and arrangements and ^(Q)doors, ¹² as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before ^(R)the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.^[f]

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite ^(S)the yard are the holy chambers, ^(T)where the priests who approach the Lord ^(U)shall eat the ^(V)most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—^(W)the grain offering, ^(X)the sin offering, and ^(Y)the guilt offering—for the place is holy. ¹⁴ When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court ^(Z)without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. ^(AA)They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

⁶ And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, ^(A)thirty in each story. There were offsets^[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, ^(B)so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. ⁷ And 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 ^(C)so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. ⁸ I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of ^(D)six long cubits. ⁹ The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. ^(E)The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the

^5 (A)He also built a structure^[a] against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and ^(B)the inner sanctuary. And he made ^(C)side chambers all around. ⁶ The lowest story^[b] was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.