The Prophet Ezekiel

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- Chapter 41 -

Then the man brought me into the temple’s holy place and measured the doorposts-After six cubits wide on either side the width of the tent.

The width of the doorway was ten cubits; the wall on each side was five cubits long. Then the man measured the dimensions of the holy place-forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

Then the man went into the very holy place and measured the posts of the doorway-two cubits, and the doorway was six cubits wide. The walls on either side were seven cubits wide.

Then he measured the room’s length-twenty cubits. Its width-twenty cubits to the front of the temple hall. Then he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Outside the Temple

Then the man measured the wall of the house-it was six cubits thick. The width of each side room around the house was four cubits wide.

There were side rooms on three levels, one room above another, thirty rooms on each level. There were ledges around the wall of the house, to support all of the side rooms, for there was no support put in the wall of the house.

So the side rooms widened and went around going up, for the house went around higher and higher all around; the rooms widened as the house went up, and a stairway went up to the highest level, through the middle level.

Then I saw a raised part all around the house, the foundation for the side chambers; it measured a full stick in height-six cubits.

The width of the wall of the side rooms on the outside was five cubits. There was an open space to the outside of these rooms in the sanctuary.

On the other side of this open space were the priests’ outer side rooms; this space was twenty cubits wide all around the sanctuary.

There were doors into the side rooms from another open space-one doorway was on the north side, and the other on the south side. The width of this open area was five cubits all around.

The building that faced the courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide. Its wall measured five cubits thick all around, and it was ninety cubits long.

Then the man measured the sanctuary-one hundred cubits long. The separated building, its wall, and the courtyard also measured one hundred cubits in length.

The width of the front of the courtyard in front of the sanctuary was also one hundred cubits.

The Interior Structures

Then the man measured the length of the building behind the sanctuary, to its west, and the galleries on either side-one hundred cubits. The holy place and the portico,

the inner walls and the windows, including the narrow windows, and the galleries all around on three levels, were all paneled in wood.

Above the entryway to the inner sanctuary and spaced along the walls there was a measured pattern.

It was decorated with cherubim and palm trees; with a palm tree between each cherub, and each cherub had two faces:

The face of a man looked toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion looked toward a palm tree on the other side. They were carved all around the entire house.

From the ground to above the doorway, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the outer wall of the house.

The gate posts of the holy place were square and they all looked like each other.

The wooden altar in front of the holy place was three cubits high and two cubits long on each side. Its corner posts, base, and frame were made of wood. Then the man said to me, “This is the table that stands before Yahweh.”

There were double doors for the holy place and the most holy place.

These doors had two hinged door panels each, two panels for one door and two panels for the other.

Carved on them-on the doors of the holy place-were cherubim and palm trees just as the walls were decorated, and there was a wooden roof over the portico at the front.

There were narrow windows and palm trees on either side of the portico. These were the side rooms of the house, and they also had overhanging roofs.

He brought me to the nave and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.

The width of the entrance was ten cubits,(a) and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Outside the Temple

Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported and not penetrate the wall of the house.

The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

also the width of the face of the temple, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

The Interior Structures

He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

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. It was made like this through all the house all around.

Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

There were made on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were arranged.

Footnotes

(a)41:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.