Ezekiel 41:1-11

1Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs; on each side the width of the jamb was 10½ feet.

2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet, and the width, 35 feet.

3He went inside the next room and measured the jambs at the entrance; they were 3½ feet wide. The entrance was 10½ feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side was 12¼ feet.

4He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

5Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10½ feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was 7 feet.

6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each. There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.

7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.

8I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10½ feet high.

9The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8¾ feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple

10and the outer chambers was 35 feet wide all around the temple.

11The side rooms opened into the free space, one entrance toward the north and another to the south. The area of free space was 8¾ feet wide all around.