[1] He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad
on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the
breadth of the tent. [2] The breadth 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: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the
breadth, twenty cubits. [3] Then went he inward, and measured each post of
the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of
the entrance, seven cubits. [4] He measured the length of it, twenty
cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to
me, This is the most holy place. [5] Then he measured the wall of the
house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits,
round about the house on every side. [6] The side-chambers were in three
stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the
wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that
they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.
[7] The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher
and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round
about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and
so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle
[chamber]. [8] I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the
foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. [9]
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside,
was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers
that belonged to the house. [10] Between the chambers was a breadth of
twenty cubits round about the house on every side. [11] The doors of the
side-chambers were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the
north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that
was left was five cubits round about. [12] The building that was before the
separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and
the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length
of it ninety cubits. [13] So he measured the house, one hundred cubits
long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it, one
hundred cubits long; [14] also the breadth of the face of the house, 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 the back
of it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, one
hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; [16]
the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on
their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings round
about, 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 round about inside and outside, by measure.
[18] It was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and 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. [thus was it] made
through all the house round about: [20] from the ground to above the door
were cherubim and palm-trees made: thus was the wall of the temple. [21] As
for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the
sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].
[22] The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it two
cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it,
were of wood: and 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 [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two
leaves for the other. [25] There were made on them, on the doors of the
temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made on the walls; and 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: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the
thresholds.
