Ezekiel 41:1-26

The shining man brought me to the Holy Place and measured its doorframes; each was six cubits wide. The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side, its length was forty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. Then he went inside the innermost chamber and measured the doorframes at the entrance as two cubits, then the entrance as six cubits, and the width of the entrance as seven cubits. He measured its length and width as twenty cubits, at the end of the outer sanctuary. Then he said to me, “This is the Holy of Holies.” He then measured the wall of the temple as six cubits thick. There were side rooms all around the temple that were each four cubits wide. And there were three levels of the side rooms, with thirty rooms on each floor. All around the wall of the temple were ledges that served as supports for the side rooms so that they did not have to be attached to the temple wall for support. The rooms were right up to the temple walls. The width of the side rooms increased, floor by floor, because the width of the temple increased as it got higher, from the lowest level through the middle level to the top level. Then I looked down and saw that the temple stood on a raised platform that surrounded it. The platform was a full measuring reed high (six cubits) and provided a foundation for the side rooms. The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. On the raised platform there was a terrace all around the side rooms of the temple. It was twenty cubits between the edge of the platform and the rooms for the priests. And the doors of the side rooms faced an open area, one door toward the north and one door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits wide all around. The building on the west side of the courtyard was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits. Then the shining man measured the length of the temple as one hundred cubits. The length of the courtyard plus the building and its walls was also one hundred cubits. The width of the courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was likewise one hundred cubits. Then he measured the length of the building west of the courtyard, including its balconies on either side, which was also one hundred cubits. The entire inside of the Holy Place, the porches of the courtyard, the thresholds, the windows, and the galleries on three sides that faced the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows. And the windows were screened with latticework. On the door to the inner part of the temple and on all the walls all around, both inside and outside, were carved alternating cherubim and palm trees. Each of the cherubim had two faces, a human face that gazed toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a young lion turned toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved throughout the temple everywhere. The Holy Place had the same pattern of cherubim and palm trees carved on the wall from the floor to the space above the doors. The columns of the doorway to the Holy Place were square, and the columns at the entrance to the Holy of Holies were similar. A wooden altar was there, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits wide. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. The shining man said to me, “This is the table that always stands in the presence of YAHWEH.” The Holy Place and the Holy of Holies had double doors. Each of the doors had two hinged leaves that swung open in the middle. On the doors of the Holy Place were carved cherubim and palm trees just like those carved on the walls. There was a wooden roof over the outside of the doorway to the Holy Place. And there were niches with palm trees on either side in the front walls of the temple porch. And the side rooms of the temple also had canopies.