12. A border running along the front of the rooms on each side was eighteen inches wide, and each of the rooms was nine feet square.
13. He measured the gate through the room openings that faced each other. From the outer ceiling edge of one room to the outer ceiling edge of the other, the gate was thirty-seven and a half feet wide.
14. Next he made out the perimeter of the hallway, defined by the arches inside the gate: it was ninety feet.
15. It was seventy-five feet from the front of the outer gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate.
16. Inside the gate, all of the rooms and their arches had closed windows; there were also niches inside the porch all the way around. The arches were decorated with palm trees.
17. Then he brought me to the outer courtyard, which consisted of chambers and a pavement all the way around. Thirty chambers came up to the pavement,
18. and the pavement came up to the facades of the gates along their entire length. That was the lower pavement.
19. When he measured the width from the inside of the lower gate to the outer edge of the inner courtyard, it was one hundred fifty feet.After he measured the east gate, he measured the north gate,
20. the one facing north at the outer courtyard. He measured its length and width,
21. its three inner rooms on each side, its arches, and its porch. Its measurements were the same as the first gate: seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.
22. The windows, porch, and palm decorations had the same measurements as those of the east gate. Seven steps led up to the entrance, and the porch was at the other end.
23. There were also gates to the inner courtyard opposite the north and east gates. When he measured from gate to gate, it was one hundred fifty feet.
24. Then he had me walk toward the south, where there was a gate facing south. He measured its arches and porch using the same measurements.
25. Its windows and its porch all around were like the others, and the gate also was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.
26. Its stairway had seven steps, and its porch was at the other end. On its arches, one on either side, were palm decorations.