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The Sacred Rooms for the Priests

42 1-2 After the man and I left the temple and walked back to the outer courtyard, he showed me a set of rooms on the north side of the west building.[a] This set of rooms was 50 meters long and 25 meters wide. On one side of them was the 10 meters of open space that ran alongside the temple,[b] and on the other side was the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard.[c] The rooms were arranged in three levels

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Footnotes

  1. 42.1,2 he showed me … the west building: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 42.3 the 10 meters of open space … the temple: See 41.10.
  3. 42.3 the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard: See 40.17.

The Chambers for the Priests

42 Then he (A)brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the (B)north; and he brought me into (C)the chamber which was opposite the separating courtyard, and which was opposite the building toward the north. Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door. Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the (D)pavement of the outer court, was (E)gallery against gallery in three stories.

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