¶ Then he brought¹ me forth into the utter court², the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber³ that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

Before⁴ the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

Over⁵ against the twenty⁶ cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement⁷ which was for the utter court, was gallery against⁸ gallery in three stories.

And before⁹ the chambers was a walk¹⁰ of ten cubits breadth inward, a way¹¹ of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these¹², than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building¹³.

¹⁴For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before¹⁵ the temple were an hundred cubits.

And from under¹⁶ these chambers was the entry¹⁷ on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

¶ The chambers were in the thickness¹⁸ of the wall of the court toward the east, over against¹⁹ the separate place, and over against the building.

²⁰And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door²¹ in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy²² chambers, where the priests that approach²³ unto the LORD shall eat the most holy²⁴ things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go²⁵ out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put²⁶ on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

¶ Now when he had made an end of measuring²⁷ the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate²⁸ whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

He measured the east side²⁹ with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

¶ He measured it by the four sides: it had³⁰ a wall round about, five hundred³¹ reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation³² between the sanctuary and the profane place.