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around the outside of the temple. In the man’s width twenty-five cubits. Its windows and
hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, those of its archways, and also its palm trees,
each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he had the same measurements as the gateway
measured the width of the wall structure, one facing east; it was ascended by seven steps,
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rod; and the height, one rod. and its archway was in front of it. A gate of the
6 Then he went to the gateway which faced inner court was opposite the northern gateway,
east; and he went up its stairs and measured just as the eastern gateway; and he measured
the threshold of the gateway, which was one from gateway to gateway, one hundred cubits.
rod wide, and the other threshold was one rod 24 After that he brought me toward the south,
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wide. Each gate chamber was one rod long and there a gateway was facing south; and he
and one rod wide; between the gate chambers measured its gateposts and archways accord-
was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of ing to these same measurements. There were
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the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate windows in it and in its archways all around
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was one rod. He also measured the vestibule like those windows; its length was fifty cubits
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of the inside gate, one rod. Then he measured and its width twenty-five cubits. Seven steps
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the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and led up to it, and its archway was in front of
the gateposts, two cubits. The vestibule of the them; and it had palm trees on its gateposts,
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gate was on the inside. In the eastern gate- one on this side and one on that side. There
way were three gate chambers on one side and was also a gateway on the inner court, facing
three on the other; the three were all the same south; and he measured from gateway to gate-
size; also the gateposts were of the same size way toward the south, one hundred cubits.
on this side and that side. 28 Then he brought me to the inner court
11 He measured the width of the entrance to through the southern gateway; he measured the
the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the southern gateway according to these same
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gate, thirteen cubits. There was a space in front measurements. Also its gate chambers, its
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of the gate chambers, one cubit on this side and gateposts, and its archways were according to
one cubit on that side; the gate chambers were these same measurements; there were windows
six cubits on this side and six cubits on that in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty
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side. Then he measured the gateway from cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. There
the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the were archways all around, twenty-five cubits
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other; the width was twenty-five cubits, as door long and five cubits wide. Its archways faced
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faces door. He measured the gateposts, sixty the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts,
cubits high, and the court all around the gate- and going up to it were eight steps.
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way extended to the gatepost. From the front 32 And he brought me into the inner court
of the entrance gate to the front of the facing east; he measured the gateway accord-
vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits. ing to these same measurements. Also its
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16 There were beveled window frames in the gate gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways
chambers and in their intervening archways were according to these same measurements;
on the inside of the gateway all around, and and there were windows in it and in its arch-
likewise in the vestibules. There were windows ways all around; it was fifty cubits long and
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all around on the inside. And on each gatepost twenty-five cubits wide. Its archways faced
were palm trees. the outer court, and palm trees were on its
17 Then he brought me into the outer court; gateposts on this side and on that side; and
and there were chambers and a pavement going up to it were eight steps.
made all around the court; thirty chambers 35 Then he brought me to the north gateway
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faced the pavement. The pavement was by and measured it according to these same
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the side of the gateways, corresponding to the measurements— also its gate chambers, its
length of the gateways; this was the lower gateposts, and its archways. It had windows all
pavement. Then he measured the width from around; its length was fifty cubits and its width
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the front of the lower gateway to the front of twenty-five cubits. Its gateposts faced the
the inner court exterior, one hundred cubits outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts
toward the east and the north. on this side and on that side, and going up to it
20 On the outer court was also a gateway fac- were eight steps.
ing north, and he measured its length and its 38 There was a chamber and its entrance by
width. Its gate chambers, three on this side the gateposts of the gateway, where they
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and three on that side, its gateposts and its washed the burnt offering. In the vestibule of
archways, had the same measurements as the the gateway were two tables on this side and
first gate; its length was fifty cubits and its two tables on that side, on which to slay the
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