Ezekiel 41

¹ He took me to the Hekal and measured its piers: six cubits wide on the one side, six cubits wide on theother.

² The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the returns of the entrance were five cubits on the oneside and five cubits on the other. He measured its length: forty cubits; and its width: twenty cubits.

³ He then went inside and measured the pier at the entrance: two cubits; then the entrance; six cubits;and the returns of the entrance: seven cubits.

⁴ He measured its length; twenty cubits; and its width against the Hekal: twenty cubits. He then said tome, 'This is the Holy of Holies.'

⁵ He then measured the wal of the Temple: six cubits. The width of the lateral structure was four cubits,al round the Temple.

⁶ The cel s were one above the other in three tiers of thirty cells each. The cells were recessed into thewal , the wal of the structure comprising the cel s, all round, forming offsets; but there were no offsets in the walof the Temple itself.

⁷ The width of the cel s increased, storey by storey, corresponding to the amount taken in from the wallfrom one storey to the next, all round the Temple.

⁸ Then I saw that there was a paved terrace all round the Temple. The height of this, which formed thebase of the side cells, was one complete rod of six cubits.

⁹ The outer wal of the side cells was five cubits thick. There was a passage between the cel s of theTemple

¹⁰ and the rooms, twenty cubits wide, al round the Temple.

¹¹ As a way in to the lateral cel s on the passage there was one entrance on the north side and oneentrance on the south side. The width of the passage was five cubits right round.

¹² The building on the west side of the court was seventy cubits wide, the wal of the building was fivecubits thick al round and its length was ninety cubits.

¹³ He measured the length of the Temple: a hundred cubits.

¹⁴ The length of the court plus the building and its wal s: a hundred cubits.

¹⁵ He measured the length of the building, along the court, at the back, and its gal eries on either side: ahundred cubits. The inside of the Hekal and the porches of the court,

¹⁶ the thresholds, the windows, the gal eries on three sides, facing the threshold, were panel ed withwood al round from floor to windows, and the windows were screened with latticework.

¹⁷ From the door to the inner part of the Temple, as wel as outside, and on the wall all round, bothinside and out,

¹⁸ were carved great winged creatures and palm trees, one palm tree between two winged creatures;each winged creature had two faces:

¹⁹ a human face turned towards the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion towards the palm treeon the other side, throughout the Temple, al round.

²⁰ Winged creatures and palm trees were carved on the wal from the floor to above the entrance.

²¹ The doorposts of the Temple were square. In front of the sanctuary there was something like

²² a wooden altar, three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base and sides were of wood.He said to me, 'This is the table in the presence of Yahweh.'

²³ The Hekal had double doors and the sanctuary

²⁴ double doors. These doors had two hinged leaves, two leaves for the one door, two leaves for theother.

²⁵ On them (on the doors of the Hekal), were carved great winged creatures and palm trees like thosecarved on the wal s. There was a wooden porch roof on the front of the Ulam on the outside,

²⁶ and windows with flanking palm trees on the sides of the Ulam, the cel s to the side of the Templeand the porch-roofs.