35. Then the man took me to the north gateway. He measured it, and it was the same size as the others.
36. Like them, it also had guardrooms, decorated inner walls, an entrance room, and windows all round. Its total length was 25 metres and its width 12.5 metres.
37. The entrance room faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees were carved on the walls along the passage. Eight steps led up to this gate.
38. In the outer courtyard there was an annexe attached to the inner gateway on the north side. It opened into the entrance room that faced the courtyard, and there they washed the carcasses of the animals to be burnt whole as sacrifices.
39. In this entrance room there were four tables, two on each side of the room. It was on these tables that they killed the animals to be offered as sacrifices, either to be burnt whole or to be sacrifices for sin or as repayment offerings.
40. Outside the room there were four similar tables, two on either side of the entrance of the north gate.