41 1 Then he brought me to the main hall and measured the doorposts—ten and a half feet wide each side, the width of the tent. 2 The entrance was seventeen and a half feet wide, with walls of eight and three-quarter feet on each side. He measured the main hall: seventy feet long, thirty-five wide.
3 He went inside and measured the doorposts of the entrance: about three and a half feet; the entrance: about ten and a half feet; the width of the entrance: about twelve and a quarter feet. 4 He measured it—thirty-five feet long, thirty-five feet wide—in front of the main hall. He told me, "This is the Most Holy Place." a a 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.
5 He measured the house wall: about ten and a half feet thick, each side room about seven feet wide, all around the house. 6 Side rooms stood in three tiers, one above another, thirty per tier. Ledges ran around the house wall to support the side rooms, so they were not fastened into the house wall itself. 7 The side rooms widened story by story as they rose, since the surrounding structure went up around the house; so the house grew wider upward, and one went up from the lowest story to the top through the middle one.
8 I saw the house had a raised platform all around; the side rooms' foundations were about ten and a half feet. 9 The side chambers' outer wall was about eight and three-quarter feet thick; the open space between the house's side chambers. 10 and the outer chambers was about thirty-five feet wide, all around the house on every side. 11 Doorways of the side chambers opened onto the open space, one doorway north, one south. The open space was about eight and three-quarter feet wide all around.
12 The building facing the temple's separated area on the west was about a hundred twenty-two and a half feet wide, its wall about eight and three-quarter feet thick all around, and its length about a hundred fifty-seven and a half feet.
13 Then he measured the house: about a hundred seventy-five feet long; and the courtyard, with the building and its walls, about a hundred seventy-five feet long. 14 The house's front width, with the courtyard eastward, was about a hundred seventy-five feet.
15 Then he measured the building's length facing the restricted area behind it, its galleries on both sides—about a hundred seventy-five feet—plus the inner main hall and the court's porches, 16 the thresholds, the narrow windows, and the galleries around the three—facing the threshold—were paneled with wood all around, from the floor to the windows; and the windows were covered, 17 reaching above the doorway, to the inner house and outside, and on every wall all around, inside and out, by measure. 18 Carved with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between each cherub and the next, two faces on each cherub: 19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side, and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; 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 main hall wall.
21 The main hall's doorposts were squared, and in front of the Holy Place stood something that looked like 22 an altar of wood, about five and a quarter feet high and three and a half feet long. Its corners, base, and sides were wood. He told me, "This is the table before our Father." 23 The main hall and Holy Place each had two doors. 24 Each door had two leaves, two swinging leaves—two for the one door and two for the other. 25 The main hall doors had cherubim and palm trees carved on them, like those carved on the walls. Outside, a wooden canopy stood over the entrance hall front. 26 Narrow windows and palm trees were on both sides, on the entrance hall's sidewalls, on the house's side rooms, and on the canopies.
