He brought me to the Holy Place, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the width of the tent. 2The width of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
3Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. 4He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the Holy Place: and he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
5Then he measured the wall of the House1, six cubits; and the width of every side-chamber, four cubits, all around the House on every side. 6The side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the House for the side-chambers all around, that they might have hold therein, and not have hold in the wall of the House. 7The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the House higher and higher; for the encompassing of the House went higher and higher all around the House: therefore the width of the House continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.
8I saw also that the House had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the House. 10Between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the House on every side. 11The doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the width of the place that was left was five cubits all around.
12The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
13So he measured the House, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; 14also the width of the face of the House, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.
15He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the interior of the Holy Place, and the porches of the court; 16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries all around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), 17to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall around inside and outside, by measure. 18It was made with karubin2 and palm trees; and a palm tree was between karubi3 and karubi, and every karubi had two faces; 19so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. thus was it made through the whole House all around: 20from the ground to above the door were karubin and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the Holy Place.
21As for the Holy Place, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the Most Holy Place, its appearance was as the appearance of the Holy Place. 22The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, length, and walls were of wood: and he said to me, “This is the table that is before YAHWEH4.” 23The Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had two doors. 24The doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves: two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other. 25There were made on them, on the doors of the Holy Place, karubin and palm trees, just as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside. 26There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the House, and the thresholds.
- 41:5 or, Temple, that is, the House of YAHWEH. ↩︎
- 41:18 or, cherubim. ↩︎
- 41:18 or, cherub. ↩︎
- 41:22 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎