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the man brought me into the great hall and measured the pilasters; the width of each pilaster was six cubits on each side. 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, forty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
3 Then he went into the inner room and measured the pilasters at the entrance; each was two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the width of the sidewalls of the entrance was seven cubits. 4 He then measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick. The width of the side rooms around the temple was four cubits. 6 The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, with thirty rooms on each level. There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself. 7 The side rooms all around the temple widened at each successive level, for the structure surrounding the temple ascended in stages. For this reason the structure became wider from level to level as someone went up from the lowest level two the highest level by way of the middle level.
8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it that formed the foundation of the side rooms; one full rod, that is, six cubits high. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. The open space between the side rooms of the temple 10 and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11 The entrances to the side rooms were from an open area, one entrance toward the north and another toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.
12 The building that face the temple courtyard toward the western end was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits seek on all sides, and its length was ninety cubits.
13 Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long. The temple courtyard with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long. 14 The width of the front of the temple toward the east, including the temple courtyard, was a hundred cubits.
15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard to the west, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits.
The interior of the great hall, the inner room, and the portico facing the court, 16 the thresholds, the bevelled windows, and the galleries all around, with their three levels opposite the threshold were panelled with wood. The panelling extended from the floor up to the windows (but the windows were covered), 17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner temple and on the outside. On every wall all around, on the inside and outside, was a pattern 18 of carved cherubim and palm trees, with a palm tree between each pair of cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: 19 the face of a man tend toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a lion turned toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all around the whole temple. 20 From the floor to the top of the entrance, and on the wall of the great hall, cherubim and palm trees were carved.
21 The doorposts of the great hall were square, and the one in front of the sanctuary was of similar appearance. 22 The altar was made of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long. Its corners, its base, and its side were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that stands before the Lord.”
23 The great hall and the sanctuary had double doors. 24 Each door had two swinging panels: two panels for one door and two panels for the other. 25 Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the great hall like those that were carved on the walls. There was a canopy of wood over the front of the portico. 26 And there were bevelled windows with palm trees carved on each side, on the sidewalls of the portico, the side rooms of the temple, and on the canopy.