The Boiling Places

¹⁹ Then he [my guide] brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced the north; and behold, a place was there at their extreme westward end. ²⁰ He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil (cook) the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard to transmit holiness to the people.”

²¹ Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard. ²² In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size. ²³ There was a row of masonry all around inside them, around [each of] the four courtyards, and it was made with cooking hearths under the rows all around. ²⁴ Then he said to me, “These are the ^[a]kitchens of the cooks, where the ministers (Levites) of the temple shall boil (cook) the sacrifices of the people.”