1   Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

2   And the breadth of the ^note door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3   Then he went inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

4   So he measured the length of it twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

5   Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round the house on every side.

6   And the side-chambers were three, ^note one over another, and ^note thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side-chambers around, that they might ^note have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

7   ¶2; And ^note there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side-chambers: for the winding about of the house, went still upward around the house; therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

8   I saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

9   The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that were within.

10   And between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

11   And the doors of the side-chambers were towards the place that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits around.

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12   Now the building that was before the separate place at the end towards the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick around, and its length ninety cubits.

13   So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, a hundred cubits long;

14   Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place towards the east, a hundred cubits.

15   And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and its ^note galleries on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16   The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the door, ^note ceiled with wood around, ^note and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

17   To that above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall around within and without, by ^note measure.

18   And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees, so that a palm-tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

19   So that the face of a man was towards the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm-tree on the other side: it was made through all the house around.

20   From the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

21   The ^note posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.

22   The altar of wood was three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before the Lord.

23   And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24   And the doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

25   And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

26   And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side-chambers of the house, and thick planks.

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