The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 41
1 He brought me to the nave and measured the
posts, six cubits wide on the one
side and six cubits wide on the other side,
which was the width of the tent.
2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits,
† and the sides of the entrance were
five cubits on the one side, and five cubits
on the other side. He measured its length,
forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
3 Then he went inward and measured
each post of the entrance, two cubits; and
the entrance, six cubits; and the width of
the entrance, seven cubits.
4 He measured its length, twenty cubits,
and the width, twenty cubits, before the
nave. He said to me, “This is the most holy
place.”
5 Then he measured the wall of the
house, six cubits; and the width of
every side room, four cubits, all around the
house on every side.
6 The side rooms were in three stories,
one over another, and thirty in each story.
They entered into the wall which belonged
to the house for the side rooms all around,
that they might be supported and not
penetrate the wall of the house.
7 The side rooms were wider on the
higher levels, because the walls were narrower
at the higher levels. Therefore the
width of the house increased upward; and
so one went up from the lowest level to the
highest through the middle level.
8 I saw also that the house had a raised
base all around. The foundations of the
side rooms were a full reed of six great
cubits.
9 The thickness of the outer wall of the
side rooms wasfive cubits. That which was
left was the place of the side rooms that
belonged to the house.
10 Between the rooms was a width of
twenty cubits around the house on every
side.
11 The doors of the side rooms were
toward an open area that was left, one
door toward the north, and another door
toward the south. The width of the open
area was five cubits all around.
12 The building that was before the separate
place at the side toward the west was
seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the
building was five cubits thick all around,
and its length ninety cubits.
13 So he measured the temple, one hundred
cubits long; and the separate place,
and the building, with its walls,
one hundred cubits long;
14 also the widthofthe face ofthe temple,
and of the separate place toward the east,
one hundred cubits.
15 He measured the length of the building
before the separate place which was at
its back, and its galleries on the one side
and on the other side, one hundred cubits
from the inner temple, and the porches of
the court,
16 the thresholds, and the closed windows,
and the galleries around on their
three stories, opposite the threshold, with
wood ceilings all around, and from the
ground up to the windows,
(now the windows were covered),
17 to the space above the door, even to
the inner house, and outside, and by all
the wall all around inside and outside, by
measure.
18 It was made with cherubim and palm
trees. A palm tree was between cherub
and cherub, and every cherub had two
faces,
19 so that there was the face of a man
toward the palm tree on the one side, and
the face of a young lion toward the palm
tree on the other side. It was made like this
through all the house all around.
20 Cherubim and palm trees were made
from the ground to above the door. The
wall of the temple was like this.
21 The door posts of the nave were
squared. As for the face of the nave, its
appearance was as the appearance of the
temple.
22 The altar was of wood, three cubits
high, and its length two cubits. Its corners,
its base, and its walls were of wood. He
said to me, “This is the table that is before
Yahweh.”
23 The temple and the sanctuary had two
doors.
24 The doors had two leaves each, two
turning leaves: two for the one door, and
two leaves for the other.
25 There were made on them, on the
doors of the nave, cherubim and palm
trees, like those made on the walls. There
was a threshold of wood on the face of the
porch outside.
26 There were closed windows and palm
trees on the one side and on the other
side, on the sides of the porch. This is
how the side rooms of the temple and the
thresholds were arranged.