²⁶ Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side.^{(A) 27} The inner court^(B) also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits.^(C)

The Gates to the Inner Court

²⁸ Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements^(D) as the others.