2. This building was fifty metres long and 25 metres wide.
3. On one side it faced the space ten metres wide which was alongside the Temple, and on the other side it faced the pavement of the outer court. It was built on three levels, each one set further back than the one below it.
4. Along the north side of this building was a passage five metres wide and fifty metres long, with entrances on that side.
5. The rooms at the upper level of the building were narrower than those at the middle and lower levels because they were set further back.
6. The rooms at all three levels were on terraces and were not supported by columns like the other buildings in the courtyard.
7-8. At the lower level the outer wall of the building was solid for 25 metres, half its length; and there were rooms in the remaining 25 metres. At the top level there were rooms in the entire length of the building.
9-10. Below these two rooms at the east end of the building, where the wall of the courtyard began, there was an entrance into the outer courtyard.At the south side of the Temple there was an identical building not far from the building at the west end of the Temple.
11. In front of the rooms there was a passage just like the one on the north side. It had the same measurements, the same design, and the same kind of entrances.
12. There was a door under the rooms on the south side of the building, at the east end where the wall began.