Today is the 21st day of November. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today, as we do what we always do gather around the global

campfire and take another step forward in the scriptures as we move through all of

the scriptures in a year.

And we are in the Book of Ezekiel.

We won't be in Ezekiel for too much longer.

We're nearing the end, but we're in the book of Ezekiel at the present in the Old

Testament so let's dive in today Ezekiel chapters 42 and 43.

Then the man led me out of the temple courtyard by way of the North gateway.

We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the North Wall of the inner courtyard. This structure whose entrance

opened toward the North was 175 feet long and 87 and a half feet wide.

One block of rooms overlooked the 35 foot width of the inner courtyard.

Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard.

The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.

Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway, 17.5 feet wide.

It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex and all the doors faced north.

Each of the two upper levels of rooms and all the doors faced north.

Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the

upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.

Since there were three levels, and they did not have supporting columns as

in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.

There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard.

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