Ezekiel 41

¹ He took me into the Hekal and measured its door jambs: six cubits deep on the one side, six cubits deep on the other.

² The width of the entrance was ten cubits. The walls each side of the entrance were five cubits on the one side and five cubits on the other. He measured its length: forty cubits; and its width: twenty cubits.

³ He went in and measured the door jambs at the entrance: two cubits; then the entrance: six cubits; and the walls each side of the entrance: seven cubits.

⁴ He measured its length: twenty cubits; and its width measured across the end wall of the Hekal: twenty cubits. He then said to me, ‘This is the most holy place’.

⁵ He measured the wall of the Temple: six cubits. The width of the side cells was four cubits, all round the Temple.

⁶ The cells were one above the other, thirty of them in three stories. The supports for the surrounding cells were fixed into the Temple wall, so that the cells were not recessed into the wall of the Temple.

⁷ The width of the cells increased, story by story, for they surrounded the Temple in the stories that went right round it, and hence . . .

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

⁹ The outer wall of the side cells was five cubits thick and the pavement formed a verandah outside the cells of the Temple.

¹⁰ Beyond the rooms came an area twenty cubits wide right round the Temple.

¹¹ And for getting from the side cells on to the verandah there was one entrance on the north side and one entrance on the south side. The width of the verandah was five cubits right round.

¹² The building to the west of this surrounding area was seventy cubits by ninety cubits, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick, all round.

¹³ He measured the length of the Temple: a hundred cubits. The length of the court plus the building and its walls: a hundred cubits.

¹⁴ The breadth of the facade of the Temple with the quadrangle: a hundred cubits.

¹⁵ He measured the length of the building plus the surrounding area at the back, plus the side depth of its door: a hundred cubits.

¹⁶ The inside of the Hekal and the porches of the court, their thresholds, the window screens, the three sets of doors, one at each threshold, were all panelled with wood, from floor to windows, and the windows were screened with lattice-work.

¹⁷ From the door to the inner part of the Temple, and right round the whole wall of the inner room, outside and inside, were carved

¹⁸ cherubs and palm trees, palm trees and cherubs alternating; each cherub had two faces –

¹⁹ the face of a man turned towards the palm tree one side and the face of a lion towards the palm tree the other side, all round the Temple.

²⁰ The cherubs and palm trees were carved from the floor to above the entrance, as also on the wall of the hall.

²¹ The pillars of the Temple were square.

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 front of Yahweh’.

²³ There was a double door for the Hekal, and a double door for the Debir,

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

²⁵ On them, on the doors of the Hekal, were carved cherubs and palm trees like those carved on the walls. A wooden screen outside went across the front of the Ulam.

²⁶ There were screened windows with flanking palm trees on the walls of the Ulam, and of the cells to the side of the Temple and on the screens,