The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides – east, west, north, and south.

They had human hands ¹  under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

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.

In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. ¹ 

The ledge is 24½ feet ¹  long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, ²  and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. ³  Its steps face east.”

Now the altar hearth ¹  is a perfect square, 21 feet ²  long and 21 feet wide.

All of the entrances ¹  were rectangular in shape ²  and they were arranged in sets of three. ³ 

and suddenly ¹  a great wind ²  swept across ³  the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

When they ¹  moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow ²  without turning as they moved,

Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. ¹  On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. ²