16. There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees.
17. Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.
18. The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
19. Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
20. The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its width.
21. The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
22. The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.
23. There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.
24. He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.
25. There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
26. There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.
27. There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
28. Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measurements;