1Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north. He brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and opposite the building toward the north.
2In front of the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
3Opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery facing gallery in three storeys.
4In front of the rooms was a walk ten cubits wide, going inward, a way of one cubit. Their doors faced north.
5Now the upper rooms were shorter, for the galleries took away from them, more than from the lower and the middle rooms of the building.
6For they were in three storeys, but they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. So the building was narrowed more than the lowest and the middle rooms from the ground.
7The wall that was outside, opposite the rooms, toward the outer court, in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
8For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Look, in front of the temple it was a hundred cubits.
9Under these rooms was the entrance on the east side, as a person goes into them from the outer court.
10The rooms were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate place, and opposite the building.
11The way in front of them looked like the rooms that faced north. They were as long as those and as wide as those, and all their exits were the same in their design and in their doors.
12Like the doors of the rooms that faced south, there was a door at the head of the way, the way straight in front of the wall toward the east, as a person enters them.
13Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, which are in front of the separate place, are holy rooms. There the priests who come near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, and the food offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy."
14"When the priests go in, they shall not go out from the holy place into the outer court. There they shall leave the clothes in which they serve, for those clothes are holy. They shall put on other clothes, and then come near to the things that are for the people."
15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the gate that faces east, and he measured all around it.
16He measured the east side with the measuring reed: five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
17He measured the north side: five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
18He measured the south side: five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
19He turned to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
20He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred reeds long and five hundred wide, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the common place.