English Standard Version

Ezekiel 40:30-45 English Standard Version (ESV)

30. And there were vestibules all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad.

31. Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

32. Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others.

33. Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

34. Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

35. Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it. It had the same size as the others.

36. Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and it had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

37. Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

38. There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

39. And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.

40. And off to the side, on the outside as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and off to the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables.

41. Four tables were on either side of the gate, eight tables, on which to slaughter.

42. And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered.

43. And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

44. On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north.

45. And he said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple,