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1 Then in the vision the man brought me to into the Holy Place in the temple and measured the doorways of the main room:: they were about 10.5 feet wide. 2 The entrance was 17.5 feet wide, and the walls of each side of it were 8.75 feet thick. He also measured the Holy Place, it was 68 feet. long and 34 ft. wide.3 Then he entered the inner room of the temple and measured the walls of the entrance; each was 3.5 feet thick. The doorway way 10.5 feet wide and 10 feet long, and the walls on each side of the entrance were 12.2 feet long. 4 Then he measured the inner room: it was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide. He said to me, “This is the Very Holy Place.”
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple: it was 10.5 feet thick. Each of the rooms around the outside of the temple were 7 feet wide. 6 Those rooms had three levels, one above the other. There were 30 rooms on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple that were supports for those side rooms; so those supports were not built into the wall of the temple. 7 Each of those 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.
8 I saw that there was a terrace (OR, raised platform) around the temple. The edge of the terrace was the foundation for those side rooms; it was 10.5 feet high. 9 The outer wall of those side rooms was 8.75 feet thick. All around the temple there was an open area between those side rooms 10 and the priests' rooms; it was 35 feet wide. 11 There were two doors from those side rooms into another open area; one faced north and one faced south. That open area was 8.75 feet wide.
12 There was a large building on the west side of the temple area. It was 122.5 feet wide and 157.5 feet wide. And its walls were also 8.75 feet thick.
13 Then the man measured the temple. It was 175 feet long, and the temple courtyard, where the large building was, including its walls was also 175 feet long. 14 The courtyard on the east side of the temple, across the front of the temple, was also 175 feet wide.
15 Then he measured the building on the west side. Including its walls it was also 175 feet long.
The outer walls of the Holy Place, of the Very Holy Place, and the entry room, 16 the inner walls above and below the windows, and the frames of the windows were all covered with thin panels of wood. 17 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. Each winged creature had two faces: 18-19 one was a 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. 20 They covered all the walls, from the floor to the top of the walls,.
21 At the entrance to the main room of the temple there were square doorposts. In front of the Very Holy Place there was something that resembled 22 a wooden altar. It was 5.2 feet high and 3.5 feet 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.” 23 The Holy Place and the Very Holy Place had folding doors. 24 Each doorway had two doors that swung on hinges. 25 On the doors of the Holy Place there were carvings of winged creatures and palm trees, like those on the walls of the Holy Place. There was also a wooden roof over the front of the entry room of the temple . 26 On the side walls of the entry room were narrow windows with figures of palm trees carved on the sides of the windows. The rooms around the temple also had roofs.