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And he brought me into the outer court. And, behold, rooms, and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.

And the four tables for burnt offering were cut stone, one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They also rested on them the instruments with which theyslaughtered using them for the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

And he said to me, This room facing southward is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.

And the room facing northward is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. They are the sons of Zadok who come near to Jehovah, of the sons of Levi, to minister to Him.

And the side rooms were a side room over a side room, three stories, and thirty times. And they entered the wall of the house for the side rooms all around, that they may be fastened.But they were not fastened in the wall ofthe house.

And there was a widening and a winding upwards and upwards for the side rooms, for the winding around of the house went upward and upward, all around the house. On account ofthis the width of the house went up, and sofrom the lowest it went up to the highest by the middle story .

The width of the wall which was for the side room to the outside was five cubits, and that which was left between the side rooms that were of the house.

And two doors were to each of the doors, two turning doors, two for the one door, and two for the other door.

And the upper rooms were shorter, for the galleries used up more space than the lower and middle ones in the building.

For they were in three stories , and there were no columns to them like the columns of the courts. So the third was made narrower than the lower and middle stories from the ground.

For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And, behold, in the face of the temple was a hundred cubits.

And he said to me, The north rooms, the south rooms which are to the face of the separate area, they are holy rooms, there where the priests shall eat, who approach to Jehovah, the holiestof the holy things . There theyshall lay the holiest of the holy things , even the food offering and the sin offering, and the guilt offering. For the place is holy.

When the priests enter, then they shall not go out of the sanctuary into the outer court, but they shall lay their clothes there by which they minister by them, for they are holy. They shall put on other clothes and shall approach to thatwhich is for the people.

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

And you shall give to the priests of the Levites, (they who are from the seed of Zadok, who approach to Me), declares the Lord Jehovah, to minister to Me, a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering.

And you shall take of its blood and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. And you shall cleanse it and atone for it.

And on the second day you shall bring a buck of the goats without blemish for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

And you shall bring them before Jehovah, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them for a burnt offering to Jehovah.

For seven days you shall daily prepare a he goat for a sin offering. And they shall prepare a bull, a son of the herd, and a ram out of the flock, ones without blemish.

They shall atone seven days for the altar, and cleanse it, and consecrate it .