13. The man said to me, “Both these buildings are holy. In them the priests who enter the Lord's presence eat the holiest offerings. Because the rooms are holy, the priests will place the holiest offerings there: the grain offerings and the sacrifices offered for sin or as repayment offerings.
14. When priests have been in the Temple and want to go to the outer courtyard, they must leave in these rooms the holy clothing they wore while serving the Lord. They must put on other clothes before going out to the area where the people gather.”
15. When the man had finished measuring inside the temple area, he took me out through the east gate and then measured the outside of the area.
16. He took the measuring rod and measured the east side, and it was 250 metres.
17-19. Then he measured the north side, the south side, and the west side; each side had the same length, 250 metres,
20. so that the wall enclosed a square 250 metres on each side. The wall served to separate what was holy from what was not.