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Ezekiel 41:12-21 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

17. The panelling stopped just above the doorway. These walls were decorated

18-20. with carvings of winged creatures and had a carving of a palm tree between the creatures. Each winged creature had two faces: a human face looking at the palm tree on one side, and a lion's face looking at the palm tree on the other side. These designs were carved into the panelling all the way around the two rooms.

21. The doorframe to the temple's main room was in the shape of a rectangle.In front of the doorway to the most holy place was something that looked like

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