15. From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.
16. There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees.
17. Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
18. The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
19. Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.
20. He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.
21. Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.