New Century Version

Ezekiel 40:35-44 New Century Version (NCV)

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.

44. There were two rooms in the inner courtyard. One was beside the north gateway and faced south. The other room was beside the south gateway and faced north.