1 ARST Then in the vision the man brought me to into the holy place in the temple and measured the doorposts on either side of the entrance; they were each three and one- tenth meters wide. BSB BSB: Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
2 ARST The entrance was five and two- fifths meters wide, and the walls of each side of it were two and three- quarters meters long. He also measured the holy place. It was twenty- two meters long and eleven meters wide. BSB BSB: The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.
3 ARST Then he entered the inner room of the temple, the very holy place, and measured the walls to either side of the entrance; each was one meter wide. The doorway was three and one- tenth meters wide, and each of the walls on each side of the entrance was three and four- fifths meters long. BSB BSB: And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.
4 ARST Then he measured the inner room; it was eleven meters long and eleven meters wide. Then he said to me,“This is the very holy place.” BSB BSB: Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
5 ARST Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was three and one- tenth meters thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall of the temple. Each of those rooms was two meters wide. BSB BSB: Next 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.
6 ARST There were three stories of rooms, with thirty rooms on each story. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple that were supports for the side rooms above. There were no extra supports built into the sanctuary wall. BSB BSB: The 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.
7 ARST Each of the side rooms was wider than the one below it. The most narrow rooms were built first, at the bottom. Then a wider set of rooms was built over it, and the widest set was at the top. A set of stairs was built from the lowest level through the middle level to the highest level. BSB BSB: The 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.
8 ARST I saw that there was a terrace around the temple. The terrace was the foundation for those side rooms; it was three and one- tenth meters high. BSB BSB: I 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.
9 ARST The outer wall of those side rooms was two and three- quarters meters thick. All around the sanctuary there was an open area between those side rooms. BSB BSB: The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
10 ARST The open areas were near the priests’ rooms that were surrounding the courtyard; there was a distance of eleven meters between the two sets of side rooms all around the sanctuary. BSB BSB: and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
11 ARST There were two doors from those side rooms into another open area; one faced north and one faced south. This open area was two and three- quarters meters wide. BSB BSB: The 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.
12 ARST There was a large building on the west side of the temple area. It was thirty- eight meters wide, and it had a wall two and three- quarters meters thick and forty- nine meters long. BSB BSB: Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
13 ARST Then the man measured the temple. It was fifty- four meters long, and the temple courtyard, where the large building was, was fifty- four meters wide. The building and its wall measured the same. BSB BSB: Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
14 ARST The courtyard on the east side of the temple, across the front of the temple, was also fifty- four meters wide. BSB BSB: The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
15 ARST Then he measured the building on the west side. Including its walls, it was also fifty- four meters long. The outer walls of the holy place, of the very holy place, and the portico, BSB BSB: Next 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,
16 ARST the inner walls above and below the narrow windows, and the galleries on all the storys— all these things were covered with thin panels of wood. BSB BSB: as 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.
17 ARST All the walls inside the temple were decorated with carvings of winged creatures and palm trees; between each figure of a winged creature was a carving of a palm tree. BSB BSB: In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,
18 ARST Each winged creature had two faces. One face was the face of a human, and one was the face of a lion. Those figures were carved on the walls all around the inside of the temple, and each face looked at the carving of a palm tree. BSB BSB: were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:
20 ARST They covered all the walls, from the floor to the wall above the entryway. BSB BSB: Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance.
21 ARST At the entrance to the main room of the temple there were square doorposts, all the same in appearance. BSB BSB: The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
22 ARST In front of the very holy place there was a wooden altar. It was one and three- fifths meters high and one meter wide on all four sides. Its corners and base and sides were all made of wood. The man said to me,“This is the table that is in the presence of Yahweh.” BSB BSB: There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
23 ARST The holy place and the very holy place had folding doors. BSB BSB: Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,
24 ARST Each door consisted of two parts that swung on hinges. BSB BSB: and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.
25 ARST On these doors there were carvings of winged creatures and palm trees. There was also a wooden roof over the front portico of the sanctuary. BSB BSB: Cherubim 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.
26 ARST On the side walls of the portico were narrow windows with figures of palm trees carved on the sides of the windows. The side rooms around the temple also had projecting roofs. BSB BSB: There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.
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