(KJV) Ezekiel 42¹

⥃Chambers for the Priests

[1] Then he brought² me forth into the utter court³, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber⁴ that [was] over against the separate place, and which [was] before the building toward the north. [2] Before⁵ the length of an hundred cubits [was] the north door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits. [3] Over⁶ against the twenty⁷ [cubits] which [were] for the inner court, and over against the pavement⁸ which [was] for the utter court, [was] gallery against⁹ gallery in three [stories]. [4] And before¹⁰ the chambers [was] a walk¹¹ of ten cubits breadth inward, a way¹² of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. [5] Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries were higher than these¹³, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building¹⁴. [6] For they [were] in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the building] was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.¹⁵ [7] And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof [was] fifty cubits. [8] For the length of the chambers that [were] in the utter court [was] fifty cubits: and, lo, before¹⁶ the temple [were] an hundred cubits. [9] And from under¹⁷ these chambers [was] the entry¹⁸ on the east side, as one goeth¹⁹ into them from the utter court. [10] The chambers [were] in the thickness²⁰ of the wall of the court toward the east, over against²¹ the separate place, and over against the building. [11] And the way before them [was] like the appearance of the chambers which [were] toward the north, as long as they, [and] as broad as they: and all their goings out [were] both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.²² [12] And according to the doors of the chambers that [were] toward the south [was] a door²³ in the head of the way, [even] the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

[13] [¶]Then said he unto me, The north chambers [and] the south chambers, which [are] before the separate place, they [be] holy²⁴ chambers, where the priests that approach²⁵ unto the Lord shall eat the most holy²⁶ things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place [is] holy. [14] When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go²⁷ out of the holy [place] into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they [are] holy; and shall put²⁸ on other garments, and shall approach to [those things] which [are] for the people.

⥃The Outer Measurements

[15] Now when he had made an end of measuring²⁹ the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate³⁰ whose prospect [is] toward the east, and measured it round about. [16] He measured the east side³¹ with the measuring reed³², five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. [17] He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. [18] He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

[19] [¶]He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. [20] He measured it by the four sides: it had³³ a wall round about, five hundred³⁴ [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation³⁵ between the sanctuary and the profane place.