Ezekiel 41
1THEN he led me into the temple, and having measured the porch to it,
2which was six cubits broad on each side, and the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the cheeks of the gateway five cubits on the one side, and five on the other, he measured the length of the temple forty cubits, and the breadth was twenty cubits.
3Now when he came to the inner apartment he measured the post of the door two cubits, and the door six cubits, and the cheeks of the door seven cubits on each side.
4And he measured the length of the doors forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, commensurate with the front of the temple. And he said, This is the Holy of Holies.
5Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of the gallery four cubits all around. And the galleries were three times thirty [cubits]; one gallery over another twice.
6And there was a ledge in the wall of the house for the galleries all around to rest on, so as not to be fastened into the walls of the house;
7and, consequently, this ledge of the house being added to the upper gallery, all around the width of the upper gallery was enlarged by an additional breadth equal to this ledge as one ascended from the lowermost to the second story, and from the second to the third story.
8And the top of the galleries around, including the ledges, was a platform equal to the reed of six cubits.
9And the breadth of the wall on the outside of the gallery, was five cubits.
10And the spaces between the galleries of the house and the chambers were in breadth twenty cubits, including the circumambient wall around the house.
11And the doors of the chambers were toward the space on the one side of the house facing the north, and on the other side of the house facing the south. Now the open space for lighting the house was five cubits all around.
12And the partition wall in front of this space was towards the west, seventy cubits broad; its thickness all around being five cubits; and its length was ninety cubits.
13And he measured over against the house a length of a hundred cubits. Now the spaces and the partitions and their walls were a hundred cubits.
14And the breadth in front of the house including the spaces on the sides was a hundred cubits.
15And he measured the length of the partition wall over against the space behind the house, and the length of it including the spaces on each side, was a hundred cubits.
16Now the temple and the corners, and the outer porch were arched; and the windows, the apertures for light through which they looked out from the three stories round about, were grilled, and the parts adjoining were planked, both the floor and from the floor to the windows. And the windows had shutters which folded back in three sections, to give an opportunity of looking out at them.
17And near to the inner, and quite to the outer door ’ there were sculptured
18on the whole wall round about, both withm and without, cherubim and palm trees between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces,
19a face of a man towards the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion towards the palm tree on the other side. The house was sculptured all around.
20From the floor to the vaulted ceiling there were carved cherubim and palm trees.
21And the sanctuary and the open temple were square.
22In front of the Holies there was an appearance like that of an altar of wood. The height of it was three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits. And it had horns. And its base and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table which is in the presence of the Lord.
23And the temple had two doors, and the sanctuary had two doors.
24And these pairs of doors which folded back had two leaves apiece.
25And on these there was sculpture. Even upon the doors of the temple there were cherubim and palm trees like the sculpture of the Holies.
26And there were large beams on the front of the outer porch, and windows narrow without and wide inwards.