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.