The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 42
1 Then he brought me out into the outer
court, the way toward the north. Then
he brought me into the room that was
opposite the separate place, and which was
opposite the building toward the north.
2 Facing the length of one hundred cubits†
was the north door, and the width
was fifty cubits.
3 Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged
to the inner court, and opposite
the pavement which belonged to the outer
court, was gallery against gallery in the
three stories.
4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten
cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit;
and their doors were toward the north.
5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for
the galleries took away from these more
than from the lower and the middle in the
building.
6 For they were in three stories, and
they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the
courts. Therefore the uppermost was set
back more than the lowest and the middle
from the ground.
7 The wall that was outside by the side of
the rooms, toward the outer court before
the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
8 For the length of the rooms that were
in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold,
those facing the temple were one hundred
cubits.
9 From under these rooms was the entry
onthe east side, as one goes into them from
the outer court.
10 In the thickness ofthe wall ofthe court
toward the east, before the separate place,
and before the building,there were rooms.
11 The way before them was like the appearance
of the rooms which were toward
the north. Their length and width were
the same. All their exits had the same
arrangement and doors.
12 Like the doors of the rooms that were
toward the south was a door at the head
of the way, even the way directly before
the wall toward the east, as one enters into
them.
13 Then he said to me, “The north rooms
and the south rooms, which are opposite
the separate place, are the holy rooms,
where the priests who are near to Yahweh
shall eat the most holy things. There they
shall lay the most holy things, with the
meal offering, the sin offering, and the
trespass offering; for the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter in, then they
shall not go out of the holy place into the
outer court until they lay their garments
in which they minister there; for they are
holy. Then they shall put on other garments,
and shall approach that which is
for the people.”
15 Now when he had finished measuring
the inner house, he brought me out by the
way of the gate which faces toward the
east, and measured it all around.
16 He measured on the east side with the
measuring reed five hundred reeds, with
the measuring reed all around.
17 He measured on the north side five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed all
around.
18 He measured on the south side five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
19 He turned about to the west side,
and measured five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed.
20 He measured it on the four sides. It
had a wall around it, the length five
hundred cubits, and the width five hundred
cubits, to make a separation between that
which was holy and that which was common