Ezekiel 40:28-49

He then took me into the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate, and its dimensions were the same as the others. Its guardrooms, pillars, and porch were also the same size as the others. There were porches all around the gateway and each porch was fifty cubits long and five cubits wide. The porches all faced the outer court with eight steps leading up to them. And palm trees were carved on the pillars of the corridor. Then he took me into the inner court on the east side and measured the gateway. It was identical in size to the others. Its guardrooms, pillars, and porches were of the same dimensions as the others. The gateway, as well as its porch, had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. Its porch faced the outer court with eight steps leading up to it, and there were palm trees carved on its pillars. Then the shining man brought me to the north gate and measured it, and it had the same dimensions as the others. Its guardrooms, pillars, and porches were of the same dimension as the others. The gateway had narrow windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. Its porch faced the outer court, and there were eight steps leading up to it, and there were palm trees carved on its pillars on either side. In each of the inner gateways there was a chamber with a doorway by the porch, where they washed the burnt offerings. And inside the porches of the gates there were two tables placed on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were slaughtered. Outside the north gate, near the steps to the entrance, two tables were placed against both outside walls of the porches—four tables inside and four tables outside, eight tables in all for slaughtering the animals for sacrifice. There were also four slabs of hewn stone used for the burnt offerings that were each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. The instruments used for slaughtering the burnt offerings and sacrificial animals were placed on these slabs. And four-inch-long double-pronged hooks were fastened to the wall all around the stone tables. And the carcasses of the sacrificial animals were prepared on the tables. Then he brought me into the inner courtyard just outside the north gate. Behold, I saw chambers for the singers of the inner court, one on the side of the north gate, facing south, the other on the side of the south gate, facing north. The shining man told me, “The chamber facing south is for the priests responsible for the service of the temple. And the chamber facing north is for the priests responsible for the sacrifices of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, for only the sons of Levi are permitted to go into YAHWEH’s presence to serve him.” Then he measured the inner courtyard. It was one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square with the altar standing in front of the temple. Then he brought me to the entrance porch of the temple building, and he measured the gateposts of the porch. They were five cubits thick on either side, and the width of the gate was fourteen cubits. The sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side. The entrance porch itself was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide. There were ten steps leading up to it, and there were pillars by the gateposts, one on either side.