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.