Ezekiel 41

41 ¹ Then he brought me to the nave and measured the doorposts—about ten and a half feet wide on each side, the width of the tent. ² The entrance was about seventeen and a half feet wide, and the walls on each side were about eight and three-quarter feet. He measured the length of the nave—about seventy feet—and its width, about thirty-five feet.

³ Then he went inside and measured the doorposts of the entrance—about three and a half feet; the entrance itself was about ten and a half feet wide, and the width of the entrance was about twelve and a quarter feet. ⁴ He measured this room—about thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide—across the front of the nave. Then he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." ¹ 1 v4 The temple had three rooms in sequence: the vestibule (entry porch), the nave (main hall), and the Most Holy Place at the innermost end — each zone more sacred than the last.

The Surrounding Chambers

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the house—about ten and a half feet thick—and each side chamber was about seven feet wide, all around the house. ⁶ The side chambers were arranged in three stories, one above another, thirty to a story. There were ledges all around the wall of the house to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they would not be fastened into the wall of the house itself. ⁷ The side chambers grew wider as they rose from story to story, for the structure surrounded the house, rising higher all around; so the width of the house increased as it went up. And you could go up from the lowest story to the top through the middle one.

⁸ I also saw that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were about ten and a half feet. ⁹ The outer wall of the side chambers was about eight and three-quarter feet thick, and the open space between the side chambers of the house ¹⁰ and the outer chambers was about thirty-five feet wide, all around the house on every side. ¹¹ The doorways of the side chambers opened onto the open space, one doorway toward the north and another toward the south. The open space was about eight and three-quarter feet wide all around.

¹² The building that faced the temple courtyard on the west side was about a hundred and twenty-two and a half feet wide; its wall was about eight and three-quarter feet thick all around, and its length was about a hundred and fifty-seven and a half feet.

¹³ Then he measured the house—about a hundred and seventy-five feet long; and the courtyard, with the building and its walls, was about a hundred and seventy-five feet long. ¹⁴ The width of the front of the house, together with the courtyard on the east, was about a hundred and seventy-five feet.

The Carved Interior

¹⁵ Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear, with its galleries on either side—about a hundred and seventy-five feet. The inner nave and the covered halls of the court, ¹⁶ the thresholds, the narrow windows, and the galleries all around the three of them—opposite the threshold—were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (and the windows were covered), ¹⁷ reaching to the space above the doorway, even to the inner house, and outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure. ¹⁸ It was carved with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between each cherub and the next. Each cherub had two faces: ¹⁹ a human face toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. So they were carved on the whole house all around. ²⁰ From the floor to above the doorway, cherubim and palm trees were carved, and on the wall of the nave.

²¹ The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something that looked like

²² an altar of wood, about five and a quarter feet high and about three and a half feet long. Its corners, its base, and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the table that stands before our Father."

²³ The nave and the Holy Place each had a double door. ²⁴ Each door had two leaves, two swinging leaves—two for the one door and two for the other. ²⁵ On the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls. And there was a wooden canopy over the front of the vestibule outside. ²⁶ There were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, on the side chambers of the house, and on the canopies.