7. And so the temple walls, when seen from the outside, seemed to have the same thickness all the way to the top. Against the Temple's outer wall, on the outside of the rooms, two wide stairways were built, so that it was possible to go from the lower storey to the middle and the upper storeys.
8-11. The outside wall of these rooms was 2.5 metres thick; there was one door into the rooms on the north side of the Temple, and one into those on the south side. I saw that there was a terrace 2.5 metres wide all round the Temple; it was three metres above the ground and it was level with the foundation of the rooms by the temple walls. Between the terrace and the buildings used by the priests there was an open space ten metres across, along the sides of the Temple.
12. At the far end of the open space on the west side of the Temple there was a building 45 metres long and 35 metres wide; its walls were 2.5 metres thick all round.
13. The man measured the outside of the Temple, and it was fifty metres long. And from the back of the Temple, across the open space to the far side of the building to the west, the distance was also fifty metres.
14. The distance across the front of the Temple, including the open space on either side, was also fifty metres.
15. He measured the length of the building to the west, including its corridors on both sides, and it was also fifty metres.The entrance room of the Temple, the Holy Place, and the Most Holy Place
16. were all panelled with wood from the floor to the windows. These windows could be covered.
17. The inside walls of the Temple, up as high as above the doors, were completely covered with carvings
18. of palm trees and winged creatures. Palm trees alternated with creatures, one following the other, all the way round the room. Each creature had two faces:
19. a human face that was turned towards the palm tree on one side, and a lion's face that was turned towards the tree on the other side. It was like this all round the wall,
20. from the floor to above the doors.
21. The doorposts of the Holy Place were square.In front of the entrance of the Most Holy Place there was something that looked like