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,
46. and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the Lord to minister to him.”
47. And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple.