32. He brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements.
33. Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
34. Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
35. Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements,
36. with its guardrooms, its side pillars and its porches. And the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
37. Its side pillars were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
38. A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.
39. In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.
40. On the outer side, as one went up to the gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables.
41. Four tables were on each side next to the gate; or, eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices.
42. For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
43. The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
44. From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, one of which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north.
45. He said to me, "This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the temple;
46. but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the Lord to minister to Him."
47. He measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple.