A   Then caryed he me out into þe; fore court towarde the north, ∧ brought me into the chambre þt; stode oueragaynst the backbuyldinge north ward, which had the l&ebar;gth of an .C. cubytes: whose dore turned toward the north. The wydenes conteyned .l. cubytes: oueragaynst the .xx. cubytes of the ynnermer court, and agaynst the paued worke that was in the court, besyde all these thre, ther stode pillers, one oueragaynst another: And before thys chambre there was a walkyng place of .x. cubites wyde, and within was a waye of one cubite wyde &abar;d their dores towarde the north. Thus the hyest ch&abar;bres were alwaye narower then the lowest and myddelmost of the buyldynge: for they bare chambre vpon chambre, and stode thre together one vpon another, not hauyng pillers lyke the fore court: therfore were they smaller then those beneth and in the middest to reken from the grounde vpwarde.

B   The wall without that stode by the ch&abar;bres towarde the vtmost court vp&obar; the fore syde of the chambres, was .l. cubytes longe: for the length of the vtmost chambres in the fore court was .l. cubytes also: but the l&ebar;gth therof before the temple was an .C. cubytes. These chambres had vnder them an intra&ubar;ce of the east syde, wherby a man myght go in to them out of the fore court, thorowe the thicke wall of the fore court towarde þe; east, ryght oueragaynst the separated buylding. Before the same buyldyng vpon thys syde, there were chambres also which had a waye vnto them, lyke as the chambre on the north syde of the same length and wydenesse.

C   Theyr intraunce, fashy&obar; and dores were also of the same maner. Yee, euen lyke as the other chambre dores were: so were those also of the south syde. And before the waye towarde the syngers steppes on the east syde, there stode a dore to go in at. Then sayde he vnto me: The ch&abar;bers towarde the north ∧ the south which st&abar;de before the backe buyldynge: those be holy habytatyons, wherein the prestes that do seruyce before the Lorde, must eate þe; most holy offeringes: and there must they laye þe; most holy offeringes, meatofferynges, synne offerynges, and trespace offerynges: for it is an holy place. When the prestes come therin, they shall not go out into the fore courte: but (seynge they be holy) they shall leaue the clothes of their ministracyon,

and put on other garm&ebar;tes, when they haue any thyng to do with the people.

D   Nowe wh&ebar; he had measured all the ynnermer house, he brought me forth thorowe the east porte, and measured the same rounde about. He measured the east syde with þe; meterode, which rounde about conteyned .v.C: meteroddes: And the north syde measured he which conteyned rounde about eu&ebar; so moch. The other two sydes also towarde the south and the west, which he measured, conteyned ether of them .v.C. meteroddes. So he measured all the foure sydes, where there went a wall rounde about .v.C. meteroddes l&obar;ge, and as broade also which separated the holy from the vnholy.

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