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.
10. The entrance was at the start of the wall beside the courtyard. There were rooms on the south side, by the restricted area and the other building. These rooms had a
11. path in front of them. They were like the rooms on the north side. They had the same length and width and the same kind of doors.
12. The entrance to the lower rooms was at the east end of the building so that people could enter from the open end of the path by the wall.
13. The man said to me, “The north rooms and south rooms across from the restricted area are holy. These rooms are for the priests who offer the sacrifices to the Lord. That is where the priests will put the most holy offerings and eat them. That is because that place is holy. The most holy offerings are the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings.
14. The priests who enter the holy area must leave their serving clothes in that holy place before they go out into the outer courtyard, because these clothes are holy. If a priest wants to go to the part of the Temple where the other people are, he must go to those rooms and put on other clothes.”
15. The man had finished measuring inside the Temple area. Then he brought me out through the east gate and measured all around that area.
16. He measured the east side with the ruler. It was 500 cubits long.
17. He measured the north side. It was 500 cubits long.
18. He measured the south side. It was 500 cubits long.