43 There were three-inch[a] hooks[b] fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

Rooms for Singers and Priests

44 Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:[c](A) one[d] beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south[e] gate, facing north. 45 Then the man said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 40:43 Lit one handbreadth
  2. 40:43 Or ledges
  3. 40:44 LXX reads were two chambers
  4. 40:44 LXX; MT reads singers, which was
  5. 40:44 LXX; MT reads east

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