Ezekiel 40:38-43

New International Reader's Version

The Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

³⁸ A room with a doorway was by the porch of each inner gateway. The burnt offerings were washed there. ³⁹ On each side of the porch of the gateway were two tables. The burnt offerings were killed on them. So were the sin offerings and guilt offerings. ⁴⁰ Two more tables were by the outer wall of the gateway porch. They were near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway. Two more tables were on the other side of the steps. ⁴¹ So there were four tables on each side of the gateway. The total number of tables was eight. Animals for sacrifice were killed on all of them. ⁴² There were also four other tables for the burnt offerings. They were made out of blocks of stone. Each table was two and a half feet long and two and a half feet wide. And each was almost two feet high. The tools for killing the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them. ⁴³ Large hooks hung on the walls all around. Each was three inches long. The meat of the offerings was placed on the tables.