1. Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard.
2. This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 871/2 feet wide.
3. One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.
4. Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 171/2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north.
5. Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.
6. Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.
7. There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 871/2 feet long.
8. This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 871/2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet.
9. There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms.
10. On the south side of the Temple there were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between the Temple and the outer courtyard. These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north.
11. There was a walkway between the two blocks of rooms just like the complex on the north side of the Temple. This complex of rooms was the same length and width as the other one, and it had the same entrances and doors. The dimensions of each were identical.
12. So there was an entrance in the wall facing the doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east at the end of the interior walkway.