The Outer Courtyard

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer courtyard. There were rooms and a pavement constructed all the way around the courtyard. Thirty rooms faced the pavement.^{[a] 18} The pavement ran along the sides of the gates. The pavement was as wide as the length of the gatehouse. This was the lower pavement. ¹⁹ He measured the width of the pavement from the inside edge of the outer gatehouse to the outside edge of the inner courtyard. It measured one hundred cubits^[b] on the east and on the north sides of the temple.