7. And each level widened, and it went around upward to the side rooms for the structure that surrounds the temple upward all the way around, therefore the width increased to the temple upward, and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story.
8. And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.
9. The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits, and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple
10. and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits all around the temple, all the way around it.
11. And the doorway of the side room faced the open area; one doorway faced the north, and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubits all around.
12. And the building that faced the courtyard was toward the west, and its width was seventy cubits, and the wall of the building was five cubits wide all the way around, and its length was ninety cubits.
13. And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits, and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits.
14. And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits.
15. And he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear and its galleries, a hundred cubits on each side, and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard,
16. the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered.
17. Above the doorway and up to the inner temple and on the outside, and on all of the wall all the way around in the inner and in the outer areas were patterns,
18. and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and the cherub had two faces.
19. And the face of a human was toward the palm tree image on the one side, and the face of a fierce strong lion faced the palm tree image on the other side; this work was executed for the entire temple all the way around.
20. From the ground up to above the doorway, the cherubim and the palm tree images were made, and also the outer wall of the temple.
21. As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and before the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of