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Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

And he measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard.

It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces:

a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around.

The sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.

Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the main room, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.

Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

In front of the chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a hundred cubits.

He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred rods and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the common.

Then I heard Him speaking to me from the house, while a man was standing beside me.

"And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a hand width): the base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge all around one span; and this shall be the height of the base of the altar.

"And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit, and its base shall be a cubit all around; and its steps shall face east."

'You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the descendants of Zadok, who come near to Me to serve Me,' declares the Lord GOD, 'a bull as a sin offering.

'And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar from sin as they cleansed it with the bull.

'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

'You shall offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

'For seven days you shall prepare a goat as a sin offering daily; also a bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, shall be prepared.

"Since they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of wrongdoing to the house of Israel, for that reason I have sworn against them," declares the Lord GOD, "that they shall suffer the punishment for their wrongdoing.