33. Its recesses, pilasters, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide.
34. Its portico faced the outer court, and its pilasters were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.
35. Then he brought me to the north gate. When he measured it, it had the same measurements as the others,
36. as did its recesses, pilasters, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide.
37. Its portico faced the outer court, and its pilasters were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.
38. There was a chamber whose door opened into the portico of the gate. The burnt offering was to be washed there.
39. Inside the portico of the gate there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering, and restitution offering.
40. Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.
41. So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done.
42. There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, each 31 1/2 inches long, 31 1/2 inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.
43. There were three-inch hooks fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.
44. Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers: one beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south gate, facing north.
45. Then the man said to me: “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.
46. The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the Lord to serve Him.”
47. Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet long and 175 feet wide. The altar was in front of the temple.
48. Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the pilasters of the portico; they were 8 3/4 feet thick on each side. The width of the gateway was 24 1/2 feet, and the side walls of the gate were 5 1/4 feet wide on each side.
49. The portico was 35 feet across and 21 feet deep, and 10 steps led up to it. There were pillars by the pilasters, one on each side.