26. Its stairway had seven steps, and its porch was at the other end. On its arches, one on either side, were palm decorations.
27. There was a gate to the inner courtyard on the south. When he measured from gate to gate on the south side, it was one hundred fifty feet.
28. When he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the south gate, he took the same measurements of the south gate.
29. Its rooms, arches, and porch, as well as its windows and porch all the way around, measured the same as the others. It was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.
30. There were porches all around, thirty-seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide.
31. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palms decorated its arches, and its stairway had eight steps.
32. Then he brought me to the inner courtyard on the east side, and again he took the same measurements of the gate.
33. Its rooms, arches, and porch measured the same as the others, as well as its windows and porch all the way around. It was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.
34. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees decorated its arches on both sides, and its stairway had eight steps.
35. Then he brought me to the north gate and took the same measurements of the
36. rooms, arches, and porch, and also its windows all around. It was seventy-five feet long and thirty-seven and a half feet wide.
37. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees decorated its arches on both sides, and its stairway had eight steps.
38. At that gate, there was a room with an entrance in the arches for washing the entirely burned offering,
39. and inside the porch on each side of the gate were two tables where the entirely burned offerings, the purification offerings, and the compensation offerings were slaughtered.
40. Outside, two pairs of tables flanked the entrance of the north gate at both ends, at the steps on one end and the porch on the other.
41. There were four tables on each side of the gate, eight tables in all, for preparing the animal offerings.
42. The four tables that were used for the entirely burned offering as well as for the communal sacrifices were made of hewn stone. Each was twenty-seven inches square and eighteen inches high. Equipment used in the ritual slaughter was set on them.
43. Hooks, three inches wide, were securely fixed all the way around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.
44. Outside the inner gate there were two chambers in the inner courtyard. The one beside the north gate faced south, and the one beside the east gate faced north.
45. He spoke to me: "The chamber facing south is for the priests who keep watch over the temple,