Ezekiel 42:1-13

1He led me out to the outer courtyard toward the north. He brought me to the chamber that was opposite the separate area and opposite the building toward the north.

2The length of the building with the door on the north was 100 cubits and the width was 50 cubits.

3Opposite the 20 cubit space belonging to the inner court and opposite the pavement belonging to the outer court was gallery by gallery in three stories.

4In front of the chambers was a walkway ten cubits wide and 100 cubits long. Their doorways were toward the north.

5The upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and the middle ones in the building.

6For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; therefore more space was taken away than from the lower and the middle floors, in comparison with the ground.

7A wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, was 50 cubits in length.

8For the chambers that were toward the outer court were 50 cubits long while those facing the Temple were 100 cubits.

9Below these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer courtyard.

10In the thickness of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, in front of the separate area and in front of the building, there were chambers.

11The passageway in front of them were similar to the chambers on the north, as long and wide as them, with all their exits and similar arrangements and doors.

12Corresponding to the doorways of the chambers on the south, there was a doorway at the head of the passageway—a way directly in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.

13Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate area, they are the holy chambers, where the kohanim who are near to Adonai eat the most holy things. There they will put the most holy things—the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.