Chambers for the Priests 1 UDB Then in the vision the man led me out of the inner courtyard, through the gate on the north side. We entered the outer courtyard and came to rooms that were facing the northern outer wall. BSB BSB: Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
2 UDB The building with those rooms was fifty-four meters long and twenty-seven meters wide. BSB BSB: The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
3 UDB In that building there was one group of rooms that faced the inner courtyard. The distance between those rooms and the sanctuary, the main temple building, was eleven meters. These rooms were built on three stories. Each set of rooms had a walkway over the set of rooms below it. There were rooms that overlooked the open area of the outer courtyard. BSB BSB: Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
4 UDB To one side of the rooms was a walkway that was five and two-fifths meters wide and fifty-four meters long. All the doors of the rooms were on their north side. BSB BSB: In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
5 UDB Each set of rooms was narrower than the set of rooms below them, because each upper sets had a walkway in front. BSB BSB: Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
6 UDB The rooms on the upper levels had no pillars to support them as there were in the courtyard, because those rooms were supported by the walls of the rooms below. BSB BSB: For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
7 UDB The outer wall ran parallel to the rooms that faced the outer courtyard; this part of the outer wall was twenty-seven meters long. BSB BSB: An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
8 UDB The row of rooms that was along the outer courtyard was twenty-seven meters long, and the row of rooms that faced the temple was fifty-four meters long. BSB BSB: For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
9 UDB The bottom story had an entrance on its east side, coming from the outer courtyard. BSB BSB: And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
10 UDB On the eastern side, along the outer wall of the outer courtyard, next to the temple courtyard, there was also a set of rooms. BSB BSB: On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,
11 UDB There was a walkway in front of them. These rooms were like the rooms on the north side. They had the same length and width, and also the same kind of entrances. BSB BSB: with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.
12 UDB There were also doorways into rooms on the south side that were similar to what was on the north side. There was an inside passage with an outer door; the passage had doors into all the rooms. At the east end of the passage was an outside door leading into it. BSB BSB: And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
13 UDB Then the man said to me, "The rooms on the northern and southern sides that overlook the temple sanctuary are only for Yahweh's special purposes. Here the priests who offer sacrifices to Yahweh will eat their portions of those offerings. Because these rooms are special, they will be used to store the offerings for Yahweh: The flour for the flour offerings, for the offerings for the sins that people have committed, and for the offerings that people make for their sins. BSB BSB: Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
14 UDB When the priests leave the temple, they will not be allowed to immediately enter the outer courtyard. First they must remove the clothes that they had been wearing inside the holy place, because those clothes are special, reserved for their work. They must put on other clothes before they enter the parts of the temple area where the other people gather." BSB BSB: Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”
The Outer Measurements 15 UDB When the man had finished measuring the inside of the temple area, he led me out through the east entrance and measured all the surrounding area. BSB BSB: Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
16 UDB He measured the four sides of the area. There was a wall around the area that was 270 meters long on each side. BSB BSB: With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.
20 UDB He measured the wall that separated what was sacred from the areas that were not sacred on four sides. The wall was five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide. BSB BSB: So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
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