1 Then he led me out to the outer court toward the north and brought me to the chambers facing the separate area and facing the building on the north.
2 The front was a hundred cubits long on the north side, where the doorway was, and fifty cubits wide.
3 Facing the twenty cubits of the inner court, and facing the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery in three stories.
4 In front of the chambers was a passage ten cubits wide running inward, a path one cubit wide, and their doorways were on the north.
5 The upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
6 They were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; so the upper chambers were set back more from the ground than the lower and middle ones.
7 An outer wall ran parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, in front of the chambers; it was fifty cubits long.
8 For the chambers along the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits.
9 Below these chambers was the entry from the east side, for anyone entering them from the outer court.
10 Along the thickness of the court wall toward the east, facing the separate area and the building, there were chambers,
11 with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north; they were the same length and width, with the same exits, layouts and doorways.
12 Like the doorways of the chambers on the south was a doorway at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the matching wall to the east, for those entering them.
13 He told me, "The north chambers and the south chambers facing the separate area are the holy chambers where the priests who draw near to the LORD are to eat the most holy things. There they will lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
14 Once the priests have entered, they must not go out from the holy place to the outer court without leaving there the garments they minister in, for these are holy. They must put on other garments before going near the area for the people."
15 When he had finished measuring the inner house, he led me out by the gate facing east and measured the area all around.
16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed: five hundred reeds by the measuring reed all around.
17 He measured the north side: five hundred reeds by the measuring reed all around.
18 He measured the south side: five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.
19 He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.
20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy from the common.