Ezekiel 41:1-11

1Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide1 on each side.2 2The width of the entrance was ten cubits,3 and the sides of the entrance were five cubits4 on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.5

3And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide.6 The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.7 4Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary8 to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.9 And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.10”

5Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.11 6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself. 7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

8I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits. 9The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple 10and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.