8. Then he measured the portico of the gateway;
9. it was eight cubits deep and its jambs were two cubits thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.
10. Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements.
11. Then he measured the width of the entrance of the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.
12. In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves were six cubits square.
13. Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from one parapet opening to the opposite one.
14. He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway – sixty cubits. The measurement was up to the portico facing the courtyard.
15. The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits.
16. The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all round, as was the portico; the openings all round faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.
17. Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all round the court; there were thirty rooms along the pavement.
18. It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement.
19. Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.
20. Then he measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court.
21. Its alcoves – three on each side – its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
22. Its openings, its portico and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.