Ezekiel 42

NEW JERUSALEM	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 He 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.	1 Then he led me out into the inner court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers which were opposite the temple yard and opposite the building on the north.
2 Along the front, it was a hundred cubits long on the north side and fifty cubits wide.	2 The length of the building which was on the north side was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.
3 Facing the gateways of the inner court and facing the paving of the outer court was a gal ery in front ofthe triple gal ery,	3 Adjoining the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
4 and in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits measured inwards and a hundred cubits long; theirdoors looked north.	4 And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
5 The 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;	5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.
6 these 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).	6 For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; hence the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.
7 The outer wal paral el to the rooms, facing them and giving onto the outer court, was fifty cubits long,	7 And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
8 the length of the rooms facing the outer court being fifty cubits, while for those facing the hal of theTemple it was a hundred cubits.	8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were a hundred cubits long.
9 Beneath the rooms there was an entrance from the east, leading in from the outer court.	9 Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court,
10 In the thickness of the wal of the court, on the south side fronting the court and the building, wererooms.	10 where the outside wall begins. On the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers
11 A 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.	11 with a passage in front of them; they were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors.
12 Before 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.	12 And below the south chambers was an entrance on the east side, where one enters the passage, and opposite them was a dividing wall.
13 He 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.	13 Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings; there they shall put the most holy offerings--the cereal offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.
14 Once 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.'	14 When the priests enter the holy place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people."
15 When he had finished measuring the inside of the Temple, he took me out to the east gate andmeasured it right round the sides.	15 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate which faced east, and measured the temple area round about.
16 He measured the east side with his measuring rod: a total of five hundred cubits by the measuringrod.	16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
17 He then measured the north side: a total of five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.	17 Then he turned and measured the north side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
18 He then measured the south side: five hundred cubits by the measuring rod	18 Then he turned and measured the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
19 was the total. On the west side he measured five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.	19 Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
20 He measured the entire enclosing wall on al four sides: length five hundred, breadth five hundred,separating the sacred from the profane.	20 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.