The Holy Place of the Temple

41 The man brought me to the ·Holy Place [outer sanctuary; main hall] and measured its ·side walls [or jambs], which were each ·ten and one-half feet [^Lsix cubits] thick. ² The entrance was ·seventeen and one-half feet [^Lten cubits] wide. The walls alongside the entrance were each ·about nine feet wide [^Lfive cubits]. The man measured the ·Holy Place [outer sanctuary; main hall], which was ·seventy feet [^Lforty cubits] long and ·thirty-five feet [^Ltwenty cubits] wide.

³ Then the man went ·inside [into the inner sanctuary] and measured the ·side walls [or jambs] of the next doorway. Each was ·three and one-half feet [^Ltwo cubits] thick. The doorway was ·ten and one-half feet [^Lsix cubits] wide, and the walls next to it were each more than ·twelve [^Lseven cubits] feet thick. ⁴ Then the man measured the room ·at the end of [or adjacent to] the ·Holy Place [outer sanctuary; main hall]. It was ·thirty-five feet [^Ltwenty cubits] long and ·thirty-five feet [^Ltwenty cubits] long wide. The man said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

⁵ Then the man measured the wall of the ·Temple [^Lhouse], which was ·ten and one-half feet [^Lsix cubits] thick. There were side rooms ·seven feet [^Lfour cubits] wide all around the Temple. ⁶ The side rooms were on three different stories, each above the other, with thirty rooms on each story. All around the Temple walls there were ledges for the side rooms. The upper rooms rested on the ledges but were not attached to the Temple walls. ⁷ The side rooms around the Temple were wider on each higher story, so rooms were wider on the top story. ·A stairway went [or So one went] up from the lowest story to the highest through the middle story.

⁸ I also saw that the Temple had a raised ·base [platform] all around. Its edge was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was ·ten and one-half feet thick [^La full rod/stick of six cubits]. ⁹ The outer wall of the side rooms was ·about nine feet [^Lfive cubits] thick. There was an open area between the side rooms of the Temple ¹⁰ and some other rooms. It was ·thirty-five feet [^Ltwenty cubits] wide and went all around the Temple. ¹¹ The side rooms had doors which led to the open area around the outside of the Temple. One door faced north, and the other faced south. The open area was ·about nine feet [^Lfive cubits] wide all around.

¹² The building facing the ·private area [temple courtyard] at the west side was ·one hundred twenty-two and one-half feet [^Lseventy cubits] wide. The wall around the building was ·about nine feet [^Lfive cubits] thick and ·one hundred fifty-seven and one-half feet [^Lninety cubits] long.

¹³ Then the man measured the Temple. It was ·one hundred seventy-five feet [^Lone hundred cubits] long. The ·private area [temple courtyard], including the building and its walls, was in all ·one hundred seventy-five feet [^Lone hundred cubits] long. ¹⁴ Also the front of the Temple and the ·private area [courtyard] on its east side were ·one hundred seventy-five feet [^Lone hundred cubits] wide.

¹⁵ The man measured the length of the building facing the ·private area [courtyard] ·on the west side [or at the rear], and it was ·one hundred seventy-five feet [^Lone hundred cubits] ·from one wall to the other [or with its galleries on each side].

The ·Holy Place, the Most Holy Place [or interior of the outer sanctuary/main hall], and the outer porch ¹⁶ had wood panels on the walls. By the ·doorway [thresholds], the Temple had wood panels on the walls. The wood covered all the walls from the floor up to the windows, ¹⁷ up to the part of the wall above the entrance.

All the walls inside the ·Most Holy Place and the Holy Place [inner and outer sanctuary], and on the outside, in the ·porch [portico], ¹⁸ had carvings of ·creatures with wings [^Lcherubim] and palm trees. A palm tree was between each ·carved creature [^Lcherub], and every ·creature [^Lcherub] had two faces. ¹⁹ One was a human face looking toward the palm tree on one side. The other was a lion’s face looking toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all around the Temple walls. ²⁰ From the floor to above the entrance, palm trees and ·creatures with wings [^Lcherubim] were carved. The walls of the Holy Place ²¹ had square doorposts. In front of the ·Most Holy Place [sanctuary] was something that looked like ²² an altar of wood. It was more than ·five feet [^Lthree cubits] high and ·three feet [^Ltwo cubits] wide. Its corners, base, and sides were wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is ·in the presence of [before] the Lord.” ²³ Both the ·Holy Place [main hall; outer sanctuary] and the ·Most Holy Place [inner sanctuary] had double doors. ²⁴ Each of the doors had two ·pieces [leaves] that would swing open. Two for one and two for the other. ²⁵ Carved on the doors of the ·Holy Place [main hall; outer sanctuary] were palm trees and ·creatures with wings [^Lcherubim], like those carved on the walls. And there was a wood ·roof [canopy] over the front Temple ·porch [portico]. ²⁶ There were narrow windows and palm trees on both side walls of the ·porch [portico]. The side rooms of the Temple were also covered by a ·roof [canopy] over the stairway.