Ezekiel 41

Modern

Literal

Inside the Temple

¹Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide^a on each side.^b

¹And he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on each side.

²The width of the entrance was ten cubits,^a and the sides of the entrance were five cubits^b on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.^c

²And the width of the entryway was ten cubits; and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on this side. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.

³And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide.^a The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.^b

³And he went inside and measured the post for the door, two cubits; and the entrance, was six cubits; and the width of the entrance was seven cubits.

⁴Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary^a to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.^b And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”^c

⁴And he measured the length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, to beyond the sanctuary. And he said to me: “This is the Holy of Holies.”

Outside the Temple

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.^a

⁵And he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of each side chamber was four cubits, all around the temple on every side.

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.

⁶And the side chambers were side chamber above side chamber in three stories, thirty per level; and they rested on the ledges that were unto the house for the side chambers all around, to be supports; they were not fastened to the wall of the temple.

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.

⁷And it became wider, and went around above and above to the side chambers, because the turning round of the house went above and above round and round the house; upon thus the width of the structure was above, and the lowest went up to the highest through the middle.

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.

⁸And I saw for the temple an elevation round and round; the foundation of the side chambers was a full rod, six great cubits.

⁹The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

⁹The thickness of the wall of the side chambers to the outside was five cubits, and also the open area between the side rooms that were of the house

¹⁰and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

¹⁰and between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the house, round and round.

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.

¹¹And the doors of the side chambers were toward the open area, one door toward the north, and one door toward the south; and the width of the space that was open was five cubits all around.

¹²Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide,^a and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.^b

¹²And the building that was toward the face of the separating courtyard at the end toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

¹³Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long,^a and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

¹³And he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the separating courtyard, and the building, and its walls, a hundred cubits long.

¹⁴The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.

¹⁴And the width of the face of the temple, and the separating courtyard to the east, was a hundred cubits.

The Interior Structures

¹⁵Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,

¹⁵And he measured the length of the building to the face of the separating courtyard that was at its back, with its galleries on this side and on this side, a hundred cubits; the outer sanctuary, the inner, and the porches of the court,

¹⁶as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.

¹⁶their doorposts, and the beveled windows, and the galleries all around for the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood round about, from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered,

¹⁷In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,

¹⁷from above the door, and to the inner room, and on the outside; and on every wall round about, on the inside and on the outside, were measured patterns.

¹⁸were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:

¹⁸And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between a cherub and a cherub; and two faces were unto each cherub:

¹⁹the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

¹⁹And the face of a man was toward the palm tree on this side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on this side; so it was made throughout all the temple round and round.

²⁰Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance.

²⁰From the floor to the space above the door, the cherubim and the palm trees were made, and the wall of the sanctuary.

²¹The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.

²¹The temple doorframe was square, and at the face of the sanctuary, the appearance was as the appearance.

²²There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square.^a Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

²²An altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length was two cubits; and its corners for it, and its length, and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the table that is before the face of YHWH.”

²³Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,

²³And two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary.

²⁴and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

²⁴And two door-panels were for the doors, two turning door-panels—two for the one door, and two door-panels for the other.

²⁵Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.

²⁵And were made onto them, onto the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, as they were made on the walls; and a canopy of wood was at the face of the portico on the outside.

²⁶There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.

²⁶And beveled windows and palm trees were on this side and on this side, on the sides of the portico, and on the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.