Rooms for Sacrificial Preparations

³⁸ And a chamber with its doorway was in^[a] the pilasters at the gates,^[b] and there they rinsed off^[c] the burnt offering. ³⁹ And in the portico of the gate were two tables on each side^[d] to slaughter the burnt offering on them and the sin offering and the guilt offering. ⁴⁰ And on the outer side as one goes up to the doorway of the gate to the north were two tables, and on the other side, which is toward the portico of the gate, were two tables. ⁴¹ On each side of the gate were four tables,^[e] eight tables in all, and on them they slaughtered sacrifices. ⁴² And four tables were for the burnt offering, and made of dressed stones, one cubit and a half^[f] long and one cubit and a half wide and one cubit^[g] high was their measurements,^[h] and they placed the objects^[i] with which they slaughtered the burnt offering on them and the sacrifice. ⁴³ And there were double-pronged hooks, one handbreadth in width, put in place in the house^[j] all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.