42. And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. On these they placed the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the offering.
43. And the double hooks, a handbreadth wide, were fastened all around. And on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.
44. And on the outside of the inner gate were the rooms for the singers in the inner courtyard, one at the side of the north gate and facing south, and the other at the side of the south gate facing north.
45. And he said to me, “This room facing south is for the priests who guard the duty of the House.
46. “And the room facing north is for the priests who guard the duty of the altar, they are the sons of Tsaḏoq, from the sons of Lĕwi, who come near יהוה to serve Him.”
47. And he measured the courtyard, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square. And the altar was in front of the House.