1. Then the man led me through the north gate out into the outer courtyard. He led me to a building with many rooms that was west of the restricted area and the building on the north side.
2. This building was 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide. People entered it from the courtyard on the north side.
3. The building was three stories tall and had balconies. The 20-cubit inner courtyard was between the building and the Temple. On the other side, the rooms faced the pavement of the outer courtyard.
4. There was a path 10 cubits wide and 100 cubits long running along the south side of the building, even though the entrance was on the north side.
5-6. Since this building was three stories tall and did not have columns like those columns of the outer courtyards, the top rooms were farther back than the rooms on the middle and bottom floors. The top floor was narrower than the middle floor, which was narrower than the bottom floor because the balconies used this space.
7. There was a wall outside that was parallel to the rooms and ran along the outer courtyard. It ran in front of the rooms for 50 cubits.
8. The row of rooms that ran along the outer courtyard was 50 cubits long, although the total length of the building, as on the Temple side, was 100 cubits long.
9. The entrance was below these rooms at the east end of the building so that people could enter from the outer courtyard.