The Inner Temple

41 Then he ^(A)brought me to the ^(B)sanctuary, and he measured the ^(C)side pillars: six ^[a]cubits wide on each side was the width of the ^[b]side pillar. ² The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the ^[c]sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured ^[d]the length of the sanctuary, ^(D)forty cubits, and the width, ^(E)twenty cubits. ³ Then he went ^[e](F)inside and measured each ^(G)side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. ⁴ And he measured its length, ^(H)twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the ^(I)sanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the ^(J)Most Holy Place.”

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the ^[f]temple, six cubits; and the width of the ^(K)side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side. ^6 (L)The side chambers were in three stories, ^[g]one above another, and ^[h]thirty in each story; and ^[i]the side chambers ^(M)extended to the wall which stood on ^[j]their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself. ⁷ And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ^(N)structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the ^[k]second story. ⁸ I saw also that the house had a raised ^[l]platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full ^[m]rod of ^(O)six ^[n]long cubits in height. ⁹ The ^[o]thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ^(P)free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple ¹⁰ and the outer ^(Q)chambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side. ¹¹ The ^[p]doorways of the side ^[q]chambers toward the ^(R)free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the ^(S)free space was five cubits all around.

¹² The ^(T)building that was in front of the ^(U)separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits ^[r]thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

¹³ Then he measured the temple, a ^(V)hundred cubits long; the ^(W)separate area with the ^(X)building and its walls were also a ^(Y)hundred cubits long. ¹⁴ Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate ^[s]areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

¹⁵ And he measured the length of the ^(Z)building ^[t]along the front of the ^(AA)separate area behind it, with a ^[u](AB)gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard. ¹⁶ The ^(AC)thresholds, the ^[v](AD)latticed windows, and the ^[w](AE)galleries all around their ^(AF)three stories, opposite the threshold, were ^(AG)paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), ¹⁷ over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. ¹⁸ It was ^[x]carved with ^(AH)cherubim and ^(AI)palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces: ¹⁹ a ^(AJ)human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young ^(AK)lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were ^[y]carved on all the house all around. ²⁰ From the ground to above the entrance ^(AL)cherubim and ^(AM)palm trees were ^[z]carved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.

²¹ The ^(AN)doorposts of the ^(AO)sanctuary were square; as for the front of the inner ^[aa]sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. ²² The ^(AP)altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its ^[ab]base, and its ^[ac]sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the ^(AQ)table that is before the Lord.” ²³ The ^(AR)sanctuary and the inner ^[ad](AS)sanctuary each had a double ^(AT)door. ²⁴ Each of the doors had two leaves, two ^[ae](AU)swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. ²⁵ Also there were ^[af]carved on them, on the doors of the main room, ^(AV)cherubim and ^(AW)palm trees like those ^[ag]carved on the walls; and there was a ^[ah](AX)threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. ²⁶ And there were ^[ai](AY)latticed windows and ^(AZ)palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the ^(BA)porch; the same were on the ^(BB)side chambers of the house and the ^[aj]thresholds.