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Giovedi, 28 marzo 2024 - San Castore di Tarso ( Letture di oggi)

Ezekiel 42


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1He then took me out into the outer court on the north side and led me to the room facing the court, thatis to say, to the front of the building on the north side.2Along the front, it was a hundred cubits long on the north side and fifty cubits wide.3Facing the gateways of the inner court and facing the paving of the outer court was a gal ery in front ofthe triple gal ery,4and in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits measured inwards and a hundred cubits long; theirdoors looked north.5The top-floor rooms were narrow because the gal eries took up part of the width, being narrower thanthose on the ground floor or those on the middle floor of the building;6these were divided into three storeys and had no columns such as the court had. Hence they werenarrower than the ground floor ones or the middle-floor ones (below them).7The outer wal paral el to the rooms, facing them and giving onto the outer court, was fifty cubits long,8the length of the rooms facing the outer court being fifty cubits, while for those facing the hal of theTemple it was a hundred cubits.9Beneath the rooms there was an entrance from the east, leading in from the outer court.10In the thickness of the wal of the court, on the south side fronting the court and the building, wererooms.11A walk ran in front of them, as with the rooms built on the north side; they were of the same lengthand breadth, and were of similar design with similar doors in and out.12Before the rooms on the south side there was an entrance at the end of each walk, opposite thecorresponding wall on the east side, at their entries.13He said to me, 'The northern and southern rooms giving onto the court are the rooms of thesanctuary, in which the priests who approach Yahweh will eat the most holy things. In them will be placed themost holy things: the oblation, the sacrifice for sin and the sacrifice of reparation, since this is a holy place.14Once the priests have entered, they wil not go out of the holy place into the outer court withoutleaving their liturgical vestments there, since these vestments are holy; they will put on other clothes beforegoing near places assigned to the people.'15When he had finished measuring the inside of the Temple, he took me out to the east gate andmeasured it right round the sides.16He measured the east side with his measuring rod: a total of five hundred cubits by the measuringrod.17He then measured the north side: a total of five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.18He then measured the south side: five hundred cubits by the measuring rod19was the total. On the west side he measured five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.20He measured the entire enclosing wall on al four sides: length five hundred, breadth five hundred,separating the sacred from the profane.