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CHAPTER XLII, 229

CHAPTER XLII.

’T h e survey o f the house or sanctuary being ended,
the prophet is given to see the cells or chambers for the
priests.
“ And he brought me forth into the outer court, the
*way toward the north, and brought me into the cell
that [was] opposite the separate place, and that [was] op­
posite the building toward the north. Before the
length of a hundred cubits [was] the north door, and
the breadth fifty cubits. Opposite the twenty [cubits]
which [were] for the inner court, and opposite the pave­
ment, which [was] for the outer court, [was] gallery against
gallery, in three [stories]. And before the cells [was]
.■a walk of ten cubits in breadth inward, a way of one
-cubit, and their doors [were] toward the north. And
the upper chambers [were] shorter, for the galleries
-contained more than these, than the lower and the
middle one, of the building. For they [were] in three
[stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts:
therefore it was contracted from the lower and the
middle ones from the ground. And the wall which
[was] without, opposite the cells, by the way of the
outer court before the cells—its length [was] fifty
-cubits. For the length of the cells which [belonged] to
the outer court [was] fifty cubits; and, behold, befortf
the temple [were] a hundred cubits. And below these
-cells [was] the entrance from the east, in one’s going
into them from the outer court. In the breadth of the
wall of the court eastward, before the separate place,
.and before the building [were] cells. And the way be­