The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 41 The Restoration of the Temple: The Sanctuary

 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 41

The Restoration of the Temple: The Sanctuary

1 Then he brought me to the temple and measured the pillars. They were six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other, which was the width of the tabernacle.

2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other. He also measured its length and forty cubits, and its width twenty cubits.

3 He went inside and measured the entrance pillar: two cubits, the entrance six cubits, and the width of the entrance seven cubits.

4 He also measured its length and twenty cubits, twenty cubits, in front of the temple, and said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

5 He measured the wall of the temple, six cubits, and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.

6 The side chambers, chamber upon chamber, were thirty-three in order, and they entered the wall that touched the temple by the side chambers all around, to be supported by them, because they did not rest on the wall of the temple.

7 The width and curve of the side chambers were greater upwards, because the spiral of the temple rose very high all around the temple, so that the temple had more width upwards, and thus from the lower chamber one ascended to the upper chamber through the middle.

8 I looked at the height of the temple all around: the foundations of the side chambers were the measure of a whole reed, six large cubits.

9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and what was left empty was the place of the side chambers, which were next to the temple.

10 And between the chambers there was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple.

11 And the entrances of the side chambers faced the empty space: one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; and the width of the empty space was five cubits all around.

12 Also, the building that was in front of the separate place, at the corner of the westward way, was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits wide all around; and its length was ninety cubits.

13 And he measured the temple, and the length of the separate place, and the building, and its walls, was one hundred cubits long.

14 And the width of the front of the temple, and of the separate place toward the east, on either side, was one hundred cubits.

15 He also measured the length of the building, in front of the separate place that was behind it, and its galleries on either side, one hundred cubits, including the inner temple and the vestibules of the courtyard.

16 The doorposts and the narrow windows, and the galleries around the three, opposite the doorpost, were covered with wood all around; and this from the floor to the windows; and the windows were covered;

17 As far as the space above the door, and as far as the inner and outer temple, and as far as the entire wall all around, inside and out, all with measurements.

18 And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, so that each palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and each cherub had two faces,

19 Namely: one face of a man looked toward the palm tree on one side and one face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other: thus it was made all around the house.

20 From the ground up to above the entrance were cherubim and palm trees, as well as on the wall of the temple.

21 The doorposts of the temple were square, and, as for the front of the sanctuary, the design of one was like the design of the other.

22 The wooden altar was three cubits high, and its length two cubits, and it had its corners; and its foundation and its walls were of wood; and he said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”

23 And the temple and the sanctuary both had two doors.

24 And there were two doorposts: two swinging doorposts: two for one door, and two doorposts for the other.

25 And cherubim and palm trees were made on them, on the doors of the temple, as they were made on the walls, and there was a thick wooden beam from the front of the vestibule on the outside.

26 There were narrow windows, and palm trees, on either side, on the sides of the vestibule, as well as in the chambers of the temple and in the thick beams.