Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed that in every corner of the court there was a court.

“‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.

He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the sovereign God when he speaks.

He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.

Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers

Then a wind lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched the glory of the Lord filling the temple.

No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.

When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.

He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.

Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,

Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.

As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.

On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52½ feet in width; the four were all the same size.