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.
40. On each side of the porch, outside the door to the room, were two tables.
41. So four tables were on one side of the gate. And four tables were on the other side of the gate. In all there were eight tables on which the priests killed animals for sacrifices.
42. There were four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering. These tables were about 3 feet long and 3 feet wide. And they were about 2 feet high. On these tables the priests put their tools. They used the tools to kill animals for burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.