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Ezekiel • Chapter 42
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It had three floors of open halls on both sides, one facing the twenty-cubit area of the inner courtyard and one facing the pavement of the outer courtyard.
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In front of the rooms was an inside walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors opened to the north.
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Since they didn't have pillars like the courtyards, the upper rooms were set farther back than the lower and middle levels.
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The rooms on the outer courtyard extended for fifty cubits, but those that faced the Temple were a hundred cubits long.
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There was a walkway in front of them, just like the rooms on the north side. These rooms had the same length and width, the same doors, floor plan, and exits.
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Similarly there was an entrance under the rooms on the south side of the building, coming from the east side.
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The man told me, “The north and south rooms that face the Temple courtyard are holy rooms where the priests who go before the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. They will place the most holy offerings there because the place is holy, and include the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings.
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Once the priests have entered these rooms, they are not to go to the outer courtyard before leaving their priestly clothes, because these are holy. They must change into other clothes before they go where the ordinary people are.”
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After the man finished measuring inside of the Temple area, he took me out through the east gate, and he measured the surrounding area as well.
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Using the measuring rod he measured the east side. It was five hundred cubits long.
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He measured the north side. It was five hundred cubits long.
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He measured the south side. It was five hundred cubits long.
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And he came around and measured the west side. It was five hundred cubits long.
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So he measured all four sides. There was a wall surrounding it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, separating the holy from the common.