A reading from the book of Ezekiel.

Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers

that were opposite the separate yard, and opposite the building on the north. The length of the

building whose door faced north was 100 cubits, and the breadth 50 cubits. Facing the 20 cubits

that belonged to the inner court, and facing the

pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

And before the chambers was a passage inward, 10 cubits wide and 100 cubits long, and their doors

were on the north. Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from

them than from the lower and middle chambers of the narrower, for the galleries took more away from them

than from the lower and middle chambers of the building, for they were in three stories,

and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back

from the ground more than the lower and the middle winds, and there was a wall outside parallel

to the chambers, toward the outer court opposite the chambers, 50 cubits long.

For the chamber on the outer court were 50 cubits long, while those opposite the nave were

100 cubits long. Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from

the outer court. In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite

the building, there were chambers with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers

on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,

as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the

passage, the passage before the corresponding

wall on the east as one enters them. Then he said to me,

The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers,

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