37. Its vestibule faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its posts opposite each other, and it had a stairway of eight steps.
38. There was a chamber opening off the vestibule of the gate where burnt offerings were washed.
39. In the vestibule of the gate there were two tables on either side for slaughtering the burnt offerings, purification offerings, and reparation offerings.
40. Two more tables stood along the wall of the vestibule by the entrance of the north gate, and two tables on the other side of the vestibule of the gate.
41. There were thus four tables on one side of the gate and four tables on the other side, eight tables in all, for slaughtering.
42. The four tables for burnt offerings were made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one cubit high; the instruments used for slaughtering burnt offerings and other sacrifices were kept
43. on shelves the width of one hand, fixed all around the room; but on the tables themselves was the meat for the sacrifices.