17. Then he brought me to the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and pavement, made for the surrounding court, with 30 rooms along the pavement.
18. The pavement was by the side of the gates, as wide as the gates were long. This was the lower pavement.
19. He measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the exterior front of the inner court—it was 100 cubits, to the east and to the north.
20. Next he measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court facing toward the north.
21. Its guard chambers were three on this side and three on that side. Its pillars and its porches had the same measurements as the first gate—50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.
22. Its windows, porches and palm trees were the same measurements as the gate facing toward the east. Its stairway had seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.
23. A gate to the inner court was opposite the other gate, northward and eastward. He measured 100 cubits from gate to gate.
24. Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its pillars and its porches. They had the same measurements.
25. The gate and its porch had windows all around, like the other windows, 50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.
26. Its stairway had seven steps, and its porches were in front of them. It had palm-trees on its pillars, one on this side and another on that side.
27. There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured from gate to gate toward the south—100 cubits.