Ezekiel 42:2-4

Contemporary English Version

The Sacred Rooms for the Priests

42 ^1-2After the man and I left the temple and walked back to the outer courtyard, he showed me a set of rooms on the north side of the west building.^[a] This set of rooms was 50 meters long and 25 meters wide. ³On one side of them was the 10 meters of open space that ran alongside the temple,^[b] and on the other side was the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard.^[c] The rooms were arranged in three levels ⁴with doors that opened toward the north, and in front of them was a walkway five meters wide and 50 meters long.^[d]

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Footnotes

42.1,2 he showed me … the west building: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
42.3 the 10 meters of open space … the temple: See 41.10.
42.3 the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard: See 40.17.
42.4 50 meters long: Two ancient translations; Hebrew “50 centimeters long.”