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38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there. 39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. 40 On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices. 42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them. 43 The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables.

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Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

38 There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico.[a] The burnt offering was to be washed there.(A) 39 Inside the gate’s portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering,(B) and guilt offering.(C) 40 Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico. 41 So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done. 42 There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering,(D) each 31½ inches[b] long, 31½ inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them. 43 There were three-inch[c] hooks[d] fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:38 Text emended; MT reads door was by the jambs, at the gates
  2. 40:42 Lit one and a half cubits
  3. 40:43 Lit one handbreadth
  4. 40:43 Or ledges