23. The inner courtyard had a gate across from the northern gate like the one on the east. The man measured it and found it was 175 feet from inner gate to outer gate.
24. Then the man led me south. I saw a gate facing south. He measured its inner walls and its porch. They measured the same as the other gates.
25. The gate and its porch had windows all around like the other gates. It was 87½ feet long and 44 feet wide.
26. Seven steps went up to this gate. Its porch was in front of them. It had carvings of palm trees on its inner walls.
27. A gate was on the south side of the inner courtyard. The man measured from gate to gate on the south side. It was 175 feet.
28. Then the man brought me through the south gate to the inner courtyard. The inner south gate measured the same as the gates in the outer wall.
29. The inner south gate’s rooms, inner walls and porch measured the same as the gates in the outer wall. There were windows all around the gate and its porch. The gate was 87½ feet long and 44 feet wide.
30. Each porch of each inner gate was about 44 feet long and about 9 feet wide.
31. The inner south gate’s porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inside walls. Its stairway had eight steps.
32. The man brought me into the inner courtyard on the east side. He measured the inner east gate. It measured the same as the other gates.
33. The inner east gate’s rooms, inside walls and porch measured the same as the other gates. Windows were all around the gate and its porch. The inner east gate was 87½ feet long and 44 feet wide.
34. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.
35. Then the man brought me to the inner north gate. He measured it. It measured the same as the other gates.
36. Its rooms, inner walls and porch measured the same as the other gates. Windows were all around the gate. It was 87½ feet long and 44 feet wide.
37. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side. And its stairway had eight steps.
38. There was a room with a door that opened onto the porch of the inner north gate. In this room the priests washed animals for the burnt offerings.
39. There were two tables on each side of the room. Animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings and penalty offerings were killed on these tables.