Ezekiel 41 :: New English Translation (NET)

The Inner Temple

Eze 41:1Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side.

Eze 41:2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet.

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Eze 41:3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet

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Eze 41:4Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, "This is the most holy place."

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Eze 41:5Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.

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Eze 41:6The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.

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Eze 41:7The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

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Eze 41:8I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.

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Eze 41:9The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple

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Eze 41:10and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side.

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Eze 41:11There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet all around.

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Eze 41:12The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet all around, and its length 157½ feet.

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Eze 41:13Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

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Eze 41:14and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet.

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Eze 41:15Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,

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Eze 41:16as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

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Eze 41:17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

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Eze 41:18It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces:

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Eze 41:19a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around;

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Eze 41:20from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.

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Eze 41:21The doorposts of the outer sanctuary were square. In front of the sanctuary one doorpost looked just like the other.

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Eze 41:22The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet high, with its length 3½ feet; its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

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Eze 41:23The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.

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Eze 41:24Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

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Eze 41:25On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood on the front of the outside porch.

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Eze 41:26There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

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The Inner Temple

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