Eze 42 | EngLXX | STEP | And he brought me into the inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he broughtme in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition,

‏ Ezekiel 42

1 And he brought me into the inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he broughtme in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition, 2 a hundred cubits in length toward the north, and in breadth fifty, 3 ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as theperistyles of the outer court,with triple porticos fronting one another. 4 And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the lengthreaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward. 5 And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it,even from the range of columns below, andthere was a space between; sowere there a peristyle and a space between, and sowere there two porticos. 6 For they were triple, and they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer ones: thereforethey projected from the lower ones and the middle ones from the ground. 7 Andthere was light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward thefront of the northern chambers; the lengthof them was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and theseare the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits. 9 Andthere were doors of these chambers for an outlet toward the east, so that one should go throughthem out of the outer court, 10 by the opening of the walk at the corner; and the south parts were toward the south,toward the remaining space, and toward the partition, andso were the chambers. 11 And the walk was in front of them, according to the measures of the chambers toward thenorth, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to alltheir openings, an according to all their turnings, and according to their lights, and according to theirdoors. 12 So were the measures of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doors at the entranceof the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them. 13 And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south,in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons ofSadduc, who draw night to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the mostholy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; because the placeis holy. 14 None shall go in there except the priests,and they shall not go forth of the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw nearto me may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister,with defilement, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they comein contact with the people. 15 So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by theway of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order. 16 And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundredcubits with the measuring reed. 17 And he turned to the north and measured in front of the northside five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. 18 And he turned to the west, and measured in front of the west side, five hundredcubits with the measuring reed. 19 And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundredcubits by the measuring reed. 20 Thefour sides he measured by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumferenceof the parts round about,a space of five hundredcubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuaryand the outer wall, thatbelonged to the design of the house.