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15 He (the angel) measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches (porticoes) of the courtyard. 16 The thresholds, the latticed windows, and the galleries all around their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), 17 over the entrance, and to the inner [a]room, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. 18 It was [b]carved with [figures of] cherubim and palm trees; so that a palm decoration was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, 19 so that the face of a man was toward the palm decoration on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm decoration on the other side. It was carved [this way] on the entire house (temple) all around. 20 From the [c]floor to [the space] above the entrance cherubim and palm decorations were carved, and also on the wall of the nave [the Holy Place].

21 The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. 22 The [d]altar was of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long; and its corners, its [e]base, and its [f]sides were wood. And he said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” 23 The nave (Holy Place) and the sanctuary (Holy of Holies) each had a double door. 24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging (folding) leaves; two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other. 25 And there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm decorations like those carved on the walls; and there was a [g]threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. 26 There were latticed windows and palm decorations on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch. Thus were the side chambers and the [h]thresholds of the house.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:17 Lit house.
  2. Ezekiel 41:18 Lit made, and so throughout.
  3. Ezekiel 41:20 Lit ground.
  4. Ezekiel 41:22 Not the altar of sacrifice (43:13-17); apparently the only piece of furniture in the sanctuary.
  5. Ezekiel 41:22 Lit length.
  6. Ezekiel 41:22 Lit walls.
  7. Ezekiel 41:25 Or canopy...over.
  8. Ezekiel 41:26 Or canopies.

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