7. The guardrooms were one ruler long and one ruler wide. The walls between the rooms were 5 cubits thick. The opening by the porch at the end of the gateway that faced the Temple was also one ruler wide.
8. Then he measured the porch.
9. It was 8 cubits long. He measured the walls on either side of the gate. Each side wall was 2 cubits wide. The porch was at the end of the gateway that faced the Temple.
10. There were three little guardrooms on each side of the gateway. All these rooms and their side walls measured the same.
11. The man measured the entrance to the gateway. It was 10 cubits wide and 13 cubits long.
12. There was a low wall in front of each room. That wall was 1 cubit tall and 1 cubit thick. The rooms were square. Each wall was 6 cubits long.
13. The man measured the gateway from the outside edge of the roof of one room to the outside edge of the roof of the opposite room. It was 25 cubits. Each door was directly opposite the other door.
14. He measured the faces of all the side walls, including the side walls on either side of the porch at the courtyard. The total was 60 cubits.
15. From the inside edge of the outer gate to the far end of the porch was 50 cubits.
16. There were small windows above all the guardrooms, the side walls, and the porch. The wide part of the windows faced into the gateway. There were carvings of palm trees on the walls that were on either side of the gateway.
17. Then the man led me into the outer courtyard. I saw thirty rooms and a pavement that went all the way around the courtyard. The rooms were along the wall and faced in toward the pavement.
18. The pavement was as wide as the gates were long. The pavement reached to the inside end of the gateway. This was the lower pavement.
19. The man measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner courtyard. It was 100 cubits on the east side as well as on the north side.
20. Then the man measured the length and width of the north gate that was in the wall surrounding the outer courtyard.
21. This gateway, its three rooms on each side, and its porch all measured the same as the first gate. The gateway was 50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.
22. Its windows, its porch, and its carvings of palm trees measured the same as the east gate. On the outside, there were seven steps leading up to the gate. Its porch was at the inside end of the gateway.
23. Across the courtyard from the north gate, there was a gate to the inner courtyard. It was like the gate on the east. The man measured from the gate on the inner wall to the gate on the outer wall. It was 100 cubits from gate to gate.
24. Then the man led me to the south wall. I saw a gate in the south wall. He measured its side walls and its porch. They measured the same as the other gates.
25. The gateway and its porch had windows all around like the other gates. The gateway was 50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.