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.
44. Outside the inner gatehouse there were two rooms on the inner courtyard, one beside the north gate, facing south, and the other beside the south gate, facing north.
45. He said to me, “This chamber facing south is reserved for the priests who have charge of the temple area,
46. while this chamber facing north is reserved for the priests who have charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may come near to minister to the Lord.”
47. He measured the courtyard, a square one hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, with the altar standing in front of the temple.
48. Then he brought me into the vestibule of the temple and measured the posts, five cubits on each side. The gateway was fourteen cubits wide, its side walls three cubits.
49. The vestibule was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide; ten steps led up to it, and there were columns by the posts, one on each side.