Ezekiel 41 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Then he brought me to the — and measured the doorposts: six wide on each side, the full width of the entrance to the of
The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the walls flanking the entrance were five cubits on each side. He measured the length of the great hall — forty cubits — and its width: twenty cubits.
Then he went into the and measured the doorposts of the entrance — two cubits each — and the entrance itself: six cubits wide, with walls seven cubits wide on each side.
He measured its length — twenty cubits — and its width: twenty cubits, facing the great hall. And he said to me, "This is the place as other."
Then he measured the wall of the temple — six cubits thick — and the width of each room surrounding the temple: four cubits.
The side rooms were arranged in three stories, one above another, thirty rooms on each level. Ledges extended from the temple wall for the side rooms to rest on, so that the supporting beams would not be inserted into the temple wall itself.
The side rooms widened as they went higher, story by story, because the structure surrounding the temple narrowed as it rose. So the rooms grew wider with each ascending level. A stairway led from the lowest story to the highest, passing through the middle level.
I saw that the temple had a raised platform running all around it — the foundation for the side rooms. It measured a full six long cubits.
The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple
and the chambers opposite was twenty cubits wide, running the full length of the temple on every side.
The doorways of the side rooms opened onto the remaining open space — one entrance on the north and another on the south. The bordering platform was five cubits wide all around.
The building facing the on the west side was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all the way around, and its length was ninety cubits.
Then he measured the temple: one hundred cubits long. The restricted area, the building, and its walls together were also one hundred cubits long.
The width of the front of the temple, including the restricted area on the east side, was one hundred cubits.
He measured the length of the building facing the restricted area behind it, including its on each side: one hundred cubits. The interior of the great hall and the porches of the courtyard,
the thresholds, the and the galleries surrounding all three levels — from the ground up to the (and the were covered) —
above the entrance, both inside and outside the temple, and all along the walls inside and out, were measured spaces, all precisely proportioned.
Carved into every surface were and — a tree between each pair of guardians. Each had two faces:
the face of a human toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a toward the palm tree on the other. This pattern was carved throughout the entire temple.
From the floor to above the entrance, guardian figures and palm trees adorned the wall of the great hall.
The doorposts of the great hall were squared — and in front of the place set apart as unlike any other, something stood that looked like
a wooden three cubits high and two cubits long. Its corners, its base, and its sides were all wood. He said to me, "This is the that in the of
Both the great hall and the place set apart as unlike any other had double doors.
Each door had two swinging panels — two panels for one door, two panels for the other.
Carved on the doors of the great hall were guardian figures and palm trees, just like those on the walls. And a wooden covered the front of the porch outside.
Narrowing windows and palm trees adorned the sides of the porch, along with the side rooms of the temple and the canopies overhead.