37 Its portico[a](A) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.(B)

The Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

38 A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings(C) were washed. 39 In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings,(D) sin offerings[b](E) and guilt offerings(F) were slaughtered.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:37 Septuagint (see also verses 31 and 34); Hebrew jambs
  2. Ezekiel 40:39 Or purification offerings

37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

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