33. with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
34. Its arches were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
35. He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements;
36. its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
37. Its posts were towards the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
38. A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
39. In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, on which to kill the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.
40. On the one side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate towards the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
41. Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate: eight tables, on which they killed the sacrifices.
42. There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.
43. The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around. The meat of the offering was on the tables.
44. Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced towards the south. One at the side of the east gate faced towards the north.
45. He said to me, “This room, which faces towards the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house.
46. The room which faces towards the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from amongst the sons of Levi come near to the Lord to minister to him.”
47. He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.
48. Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.