القراءة بلغتين

وأَتى بي إِلى الهَيكَل، وقاسَ الأَعمِدَة، فكانَت سِتَّ أَذرُعٍ عَرضًا مِن هُنا وسِتَّ أَذرُعٍ عَرضًا مِن هُناك، وهو عَرضُ الخَيمَة

وكانَ عَرضُ المَدخَلِ عَشرَ أَذرُعٍ وجَوانِبُ المَدخَلِ خَمسَ أَذرُعٍ مِن هُنا وخَمسَ أَذرُعٍ مِن هُناك. وقاسَ الهَيكَلَ فكانَ أَربَعينَ ذِراعًا طولًا وعِشْرينَ ذِراعًا عَرضًا

وأَتى إِلى الدَّاخِلِ وقاسَ عَمودَ المَدخَل، فكانَ ذِراعَين، وقاسَ المَدخَلَ فكانَ سِتَّ أَذرُع، وقاسَ عَرضَ المَدخَلِ فكانَ سَبعَ أَذرُع

وقاسَ طولَه فكانَ عِشْرينَ ذِراعًا وقاسَ عَرضَه فكانَ عِشْرينَ ذِراعًا مُقابِلَ وَجهِ الهَيكَل، وقالَ لي: «هٰذا قُدسُ الأَقْداس»

وقاسَ حائِطَ البَيت، فكانَ سِتَّ أَذرُع، وقاسَ عَرضَ البِناءِ الجانِبِيِّ فكانَ أَربَعَ أَذرُعٍ حَولَ البَيتِ مِن كُلِّ جِهَة

وكانَتِ الحُجَرُ مُتَراكِبَةً في ثَلاثِ طَبَقاتٍ كُلٌّ مِنها بِثَلاثينَ حُجرَة، وكانَت داخِلَةً في الحائط، وكانَ حائِطُ بِناءِ الحُجَرِ مِن حَولِه مُتَرَكِّبًا، ولم يَكُن حائِطُ البَيتِ مُتَرَكِّبًا

وكانَتِ الحُجَرُ تَتَّسِعُ في إِحاطَتِها بِقَدرِ ما كانَت صاعِدَة، لِأَنَّ مُحيطَ البَيتِ كانَ صاعِدًا مِن حَولِ البَيت. لِذٰلك كانَ البَيتُ مِن فَوقُ أَوسَع، ويُصعَدُ مِن أَسفَلِه إِلى أَعْلاه بِأَوسَطِه

ورَأَيتُ حَولَ البَيتِ مُرتَفَعًا، وكانَ هٰذا المُرتَفَعُ قاعِدَةَ الحُجَر، وكانَ قِياسُه قَصَبَةً تامَّةً مِن سِتِّ أَذرُعٍ نَحوَ الزَّاوِيَة

وكانَ سُمكُ حائِطِ الحُجَرِ مِن خارِجٍ خَمسَ أَذرُع. وكانَت هُناكَ فُسحَةٌ فارِغَةٌ على طولِ بِناءِ حُجَرِ البَيت

وكانَ العَرضُ بَينَ الغُرَفِ عِشْرينَ ذِراعًا مِن حَولِ البَيتِ على مُحيطِه

وكانَ مَدخَلُ الحُجَرِ عِندَ الفُسحَةِ الفارِغَةِ مَدخَلًا نَحوَ الشَّمالِ ومَدخَلًا نَحوَ الجَنوب، وكانَ عَرضُ الفُسحَةِ الفارِغَةِ خَمسَ أَذرُعٍ على مُحيطِ البَيت

وكانَ عَرضُ البِناءِ الَّذي على وَجهِ السَّاحَةِ المُنفَصِلَةِ جِهَةَ الغَربِ سَبْعينَ ذِراعًا، وكانَ سُمكُ حائِطِ البِناءِ خَمسَ أَذرُعٍ على المُحيط، وطولُه تِسْعينَ ذِراعًا

وقاسَ البَيتَ فكانَ مِئَةَ ذِراعٍ طولًا، وقاسَ السَّاحَةَ المُنفَصِلَةَ والبِناءَ وحيطانَه فكانَت مِئَةَ ذِراعٍ طولًا

وكانَ عَرضُ وَجهِ البَيتِ والسَّاحَةِ المُنفَصِلَةِ مِن جِهَةِ الشَّرقِ مِئَةَ ذِراع

وقاسَ طولَ البِناءِ الَّذي على وَجهِ السَّاحَةِ المُنفَصِلَةِ في مُؤَخِّرِها وقاسَ مَماشِيَها مِن هُنا ومِن هُناكَ فكانَت مِئَةَ ذِراع. وكانَ داخِلُ الهَيكَلِ وأَروِقَةُ الدَّار

والعَتَباتُ والنَّوافِذُ المُشَبَّكةُ والمَماشي الَّتي حَولَ الجَوانِبِ الثَّلاثَةِ أَمامَ العَتَبَةِ مُلَبَّسَةً بِأَلْواحِ الخَشَبِ على كُلِّ المُحيط، مِنَ الأَرضِ إِلى النَّوافِذ. وكانَتِ النَّوافِذُ مُغَطَّاة

وأَمَّا ما فَوقَ المَدخَلِ إِلى داخِلِ البَيتِ وخارِجِه وعلى مُحيطِ الحائِطِ كُلِّه، مِن الدَّاخِلِ ومِن الخارِج، فقد كانَ لَه أَقيِسَة

وكانَ مَصْنوعًا فيه كَروبونَ ونَخيل، بَينَ كَروبٍ وكَروبٍ نَخلَة. وكانَ لِلكَروبِ وَجْهان

وَجهُ بَشَرٍ إِلى النَّخلَةِ مِن هُنا ووَجهُ شِبلٍ إِلى النَّخلَةِ مِن هُناك. هٰكذا كانَ مَصْنوعًا في كُلِّ البَيتِ على مُحيطِه

ومِنَ الأَرضِ إِلى ما فَوقَ المَدخَلِ كانَ مَصْنوعًا كَروبونَ ونَخيل، وكذٰلك على حائِطِ الهَيكَل

وكانَت دِعامَتا الهَيكَلِ مُرَبَّعَتَين. وكانَ أَمامَ المَقدِسِ كمَنظَرِ مَذبَح

مَذبَحٍ مِن خَشَبٍ عُلُوُّه ثَلاثُ أَذرُعٍ وطولُه ذِراعان، وزَواياه وقاعِدَتُه وجُدْرانُه مِن خَشَب. وقالَ لي: «هٰذه هي المائدَةُ الَّتي أَمامَ الرَّبّ»

ولِلهَيكَلِ والمَقدِسِ بابان

ولِهٰذَينِ البابَينِ مِصْراعانِ مُتَحَرِّكان، مِصْراعانِ لِلبابِ الواحِدِ ومِصْراعانِ لِلبابِ الآخَر

وكانَ مَصْنوعًا (على أَبوابِ الهَيكَلِ) كَروبونَ ونَخيل، كما هو مَصْنوعٌ على الحيطان. وكانَت كُنَّةٌ مِن خَشَبٍ على وَجهِ الرِّواقِ مِنَ الخارِج

ونَوافِذُ مُشَبَّكَةٌ ونَخيلٌ مِن هُنا ومِن هُناكَ على جَوانِبِ الرِّواقِ وعلى حُجَرِ البَيتِ والكِنان

He brought me to the nave and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.

The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported and not penetrate the wall of the house.

The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

also the width of the face of the temple, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around.

Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

There were made on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were arranged.