43. There were hooks, each 3 inches long, fastened all around the foyer walls. The sacrificial meat was laid on the tables.
44. Inside the inner courtyard were two rooms, one beside the north gateway, facing south, and the other beside the south gateway, facing north.
45. And the man said to me, “The room beside the north inner gate is for the priests who supervise the Temple maintenance.
46. The room beside the south inner gate is for the priests in charge of the altar—the descendants of Zadok—for they alone of all the Levites may approach the lord to minister to him.”
47. Then the man measured the inner courtyard, and it was a square, 175 feet wide and 175 feet across. The altar stood in the courtyard in front of the Temple.
48. Then he brought me to the entry room of the Temple. He measured the walls on either side of the opening to the entry room, and they were 83/4 feet thick. The entrance itself was 241/2 feet wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance were an additional 51/4 feet long.
49. The entry room was 35 feet wide and 21 feet deep. There were ten steps leading up to it, with a column on each side.