28. Then the man brought me through the south gateway into the inner courtyard. The inner south gateway measured the same as the gateways in the outer wall.
29. The inner south gateway’s rooms, inner walls, and porch measured the same as the gateways in the outer wall. There were windows all around the gateway and its porch. The gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.
30. Each porch of each inner gateway was about forty-four feet long and about nine feet wide.
31. The inner south gateway’s porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its side walls, and its stairway had eight steps.
32. The man brought me into the inner courtyard on the east side. He measured the inner east gateway, and it was the same as the other gateways.
33. The inner east gateway’s rooms, inside walls, and porch measured the same as the other gateways. Windows were all around the gateway and its porch. The inner east gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.
34. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
35. Then the man brought me to the inner north gateway. He measured it, and it was the same as the other gateways.
36. Its rooms, inner walls, and porch measured the same as the other gateways. There were windows all around the gateway, which was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four 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 gateway. In this room the priests washed animals for the burnt offerings.
39. There were two tables on each side of the porch, on which animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings, and penalty offerings were killed.
40. Outside, by each side wall of the porch, at the entrance to the north gateway, were two more tables.
41. So there were four tables inside the gateway, and four tables outside. In all there were eight tables on which the priests killed animals for sacrifices.
42. There were four tables made of cut stone for the burnt offering. These tables were about three feet long, three feet wide, and about two feet high. On these tables the priests put their tools which they used to kill animals for burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.
43. Double shelves three inches wide were put up on all the walls. The flesh for the offering was put on the tables.