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Ezekiel 41:1-16 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: it was three metres wide,

2. five metres long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was two and a half metres. The main room itself was twenty metres by ten metres.

3-4. Then the man walked to the far end of the temple's main room and said, “Beyond this doorway is the most holy place.” He first measured the doorway: it was one metre wide, three metres long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was three and a half metres. Then he measured the most holy place, and it was ten metres square.

5. The man measured the wall of the temple, and it was three metres thick. Storage rooms two metres wide were built against the outside of the wall.

6. There were three levels of rooms, with thirty rooms on each level, and they rested on ledges that were attached to the temple walls, so that nothing was built into the walls.

7. The walls of the temple were thicker at the bottom than at the top, which meant that the storage rooms on the top level were wider than those on the bottom level. Steps led from the bottom level, through the middle level, and into the top level.

8. The temple rested on a stone base three metres high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms.

9. The outside walls of the storage rooms were two and a half metres thick; there was nothing between these walls

10. and the nearest buildings ten metres away.

11. One door led into the storage rooms on the north side of the temple, and another door led to those on the south side. The stone base extended two and a half metres beyond the outside wall of the storage rooms.

12. I noticed another building: it faced the west end of the temple and was thirty-five metres wide, forty-five metres long, and had walls over two and a half metres thick.

13. The man measured the length of the temple, and it was fifty metres. He then measured from the back wall of the temple, across the open space behind the temple, to the back wall of the west building; it was fifty metres.

14. The distance across the front of the temple, including the open space on either side, was also fifty metres.

15. Finally, the man measured the length of the west building, including the side rooms on each end, and it was also fifty metres.The inside walls of the temple's porch and main room

16. were panelled with wood all the way from the floor to the windows, while the doorways, the small windows, and the three side rooms were trimmed in wood.

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