God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.