Ezekiel 41

The temple’s inner spaces

1He brought me to the main hall and measured its jambs: six cubits wide on each side, the width of the tent. 2The entrance was ten cubits wide, with five cubits on each side. He measured the hall: forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. 3Then he went inside and measured the entrance jamb: two cubits. The entrance was six cubits, and the width beside the entrance was seven cubits. 4He measured the room’s length and width: twenty cubits by twenty, beyond the main hall. He told me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

The side rooms

5He measured the temple wall: six cubits thick. The side chambers all around the temple were four cubits wide. 6The side chambers were arranged one above another in three stories, thirty in each. They rested on ledges in the wall surrounding the temple, so they could be supported without being fastened into the temple wall itself. 7The side chambers grew wider at each higher story, as the surrounding structure rose level by level. The width increased upward, and one went from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level. 8I saw a raised platform all around the temple. The side chambers’ foundations measured a full reed, six long cubits. 9The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick. There was an open space beside the temple’s side chambers, 10and between them and the chambers was a space twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11The side chambers opened onto the open space, one entrance facing north and one facing south. The open space was five cubits wide all around.

The rear building and measurements

12The building facing the separate area on the west was seventy cubits wide. Its wall was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits. 13He measured the temple: a hundred cubits long. The separate area, the building, and its walls also measured a hundred cubits in length. 14The front of the temple and the separate area on the east measured a hundred cubits across.

Woodwork and carvings

15He measured the building facing the separate area behind the temple, with its galleries on both sides: a hundred cubits. The inner hall and the court’s vestibules, 16the thresholds, recessed windows, and galleries around all three were paneled with wood all around, opposite the threshold, from the floor to the windows. The windows were covered. 17Above the entrance, inside the temple and outside, along every wall inside and outside, everything was measured. 18Cherubim and palm trees were carved there, a palm between each pair of cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: 19a human face toward the palm on one side and a young lion’s face toward the palm on the other. They were carved all around the temple. 20From the floor to above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall.

The table and doors

21The main hall’s doorposts were square. The front of the sanctuary had the same appearance. 22The wooden altar was three cubits high and two cubits long. Its corners, its length, and its sides were wood. He told me, “This is the table that stands before the LORD.” 23The main hall and the sanctuary each had double doors. 24Each door had two swinging leaves, two leaves for one door and two for the other. 25Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the main hall, as on the walls. A wooden canopy stood across the outside front of the vestibule. 26Recessed windows and palm trees stood on both sides of the vestibule, along with the temple’s side chambers and the canopies.