Chapter 41
Ezekiel
Verse 1Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs. Verse 2And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits. Verse 3Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits. Verse 4And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
Verse 5Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. Verse 6And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. Verse 7And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. Verse 8I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits. Verse 9The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple Verse 10and the other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. Verse 11And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.
Verse 12The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Verse 13Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; Verse 14also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.
Verse 15Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits.The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,
Verse 16the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), Verse 17to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern. Verse 18It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: Verse 19a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. Verse 20From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.
Verse 21The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling Verse 22an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.” Verse 23The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door. Verse 24The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door. Verse 25And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside. Verse 26And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.
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