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pose. The prophet is brought from the outer precincts
to view the house itself. “ And he brought me to the
temple ; and he measured the posts, six cubits broad on
the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, the
breadth of the tabernacle. And the breadth of the door
[was] ten cubits, and the sides of the door five cubits on
the one side, and five cubits on the other side; and he
measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth,
twenty cubits.” (Vers. 1 , 2 .)
Next we look within. “ Then went he inward, and
measured the posts of the door, two cubits, and the door
six cubits, and the breadth of the door seven cubits.
So he measured its length twenty cubits, and the
breadth twenty cubits, before the temple; and he said to
me, This [is] the most holy.” (Vers. 3, 4.)
“ After this he measured the wall of the house, six
cubits, and the breadth of a side-chamber, four cubits,
round about the house on every side. And the side-
chambers [were], one over another, three and thirty
times; and they entered into the wall which [was] on
the house, for the side-chambers round about, that they
might be fastened on, but they were not fastened on the
wall of the house. And as one wound upward it be­
came continually wider for the side-chamber, for the
row of chambers went more and more upward round
about the house; therefore the breadth of the house
[was] greater upward ; and so they went up, the lowest
to the higheat, by the middle. And I saw the height oi
the house round about; the foundations of the side-
chambers a full reed of six great* cubits. The thickness
* To the root of the hand; or, as some say, under ground ; as
others, by tho joining.