34. Its arches faced the outer court. And palm tree ornaments were on its posts, on this side and on that side. And its staircase had eight steps.
35. He brought me to the north gate and measured it according to these same measurements;
36. its little chambers, its posts, and its arches, and it had windows all around: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
37. Its posts faced the outer court. And palm tree ornaments were on its posts, on this side and on that side. And its staircase had eight steps.
38. The chambers and its entrance were by the posts of the gates where they washed the burnt offering.
39. In the vestibule of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, to slay on it the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
40. On the outside of the vestibule, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables. And on the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables.
41. Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side by the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slaughtered their sacrifices.
42. The four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. On which also they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43. Within were hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around. And on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
44. Outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the east gate facing north.
45. He said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.
46. The chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near to the Lord to minister to Him.”