Mērījumi tempļa iekšienē
1 Viņš mani aizveda pie tempļa un mērīja stenderes, to platums abās pusēs bija sešas olektis. 2 Durvju platums bija desmit olektis, abas durvju puses bija piecas olektis platas. Tad viņš mērīja templi, tā garums bija četrdesmit olektis un platums četrdesmit olektis.
3 Viņš iegāja iekšā un mērīja durvju stenderes, katra bija divas olektis, un durvis – tās bija sešas olektis, bet ieeja septiņas olektis plata. 4 Tad viņš mērīja telpu tempļa priekšā, tās garums bija divdesmit olektis un platums bija divdesmit olektis. Viņš man sacīja: “Šī ir svētumu svētuma vieta!”
5 Tad viņš mērīja tempļa mūri, tas bija sešas olektis biezs. Piebūves telpu platums bija četras olektis, un tie bija visapkārt templim. 6 Telpas bija trijos stāvos, katrā trīsdesmit. Telpas balstījās uz mūra, kas bija visapkārt templim, bet nebalstījās uz paša tempļa sienas. 7 Telpas visapkārt templim bija platākas katrā nākamajā stāvā, jo katrā nākamajā stāvā visapkārt templim nāca klāt piebūves. Kāpnes no apakšējā stāva veda augšup caur vidējo stāvu. 8 Es redzēju templim visapkārt paaugstinājumu. Piebūves pamati bija vesels mērkoks – sešas olektis augsti. 9 Telpu ārējā mūra biezums bija piecas olektis. Brīva vieta starp telpām templī 10 un starp pārējām telpām bija divdesmit olektis visapkārt templim. 11 Telpu durvis bija brīvajā pusē – vienas uz ziemeļiem un otras uz dienvidiem. Brīvās vietas platums bija piecas olektis no visām pusēm.
12 Rietumu pusē pretī pagalmam bija nams, kura platums bija septiņdesmit olektis. Nama mūris visapkārt bija piecas olektis biezs un deviņdesmit olektis garš.
13 Tad viņš mērīja templi. Tā garums bija simts olekšu, arī pagalms, nams un mūris bija simts olekšu garumā. 14 Tempļa priekšpuse un pagalms austrumu pusē bija simts olekšu plati.
15 Tad viņš mērīja arī nama garumu, kurš bija pretī pagalmam, kas aiz tempļa, un tam abās pusēs bija simts olekšu garas ejas. Tempļa iekšpusi un pagalma lieveņus, 16 kā arī sliekšņus, logus ar sašaurinājumu un ejas, kas visiem trim bija apkārt, sākot no sliekšņa, klāja koks – arī grīdas un sienas līdz logiem, un logu slēģi. 17 Virs tempļa durvīm iekšpusē un ārpusē, kā arī visapkārt mūrim gan iekšpusē, gan ārpusē bija grebumi – 18 ķerubi un palmas. Ķerubi mijās ar palmām, katram ķerubam bija divas sejas. 19 Pret vienu palmas pusi bija pavērsta cilvēka seja, bet pret otru – lauvas. Tā bija apdarināts viss templis. 20 No grīdas līdz durvju augšai uz tempļa sienām bija izgrebti ķerubi un palmas. 21 Tempļa durvju apmale bija četrstūraina, un svētās vietas priekšā tā bija tāda pati.
22 Koka altāris bija trīs olektis augsts un divas olektis garš, tā stūri, pamats un malas bija no koka. Viņš man sacīja: “Šis ir galds, kas stāv Kunga priekšā!”
23 Tempļa svētvietai bija divas durvis. 24 Divviru durvis mūra vienā pusē un divviru durvis otrā pusē. 25 Arī uz tempļa durvīm bija izgrebti ķerubi un palmas, tāpat kā uz tempļa sienām, un ārpusē lievenis bija pārsegts ar koku. 26 Arī uz logiem ar sašaurinājumu lieveņa malās abās pusēs bija izgrebtas palmas, un arī tempļa telpas bija pārsegtas ar jumtu.
1 Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: It was 3 meters wide, 2 five meters long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was two and a half meters. The main room itself was 20 meters by 10 meters.
3-4 Then the man walked to the far end of the temple's main room and said, “Beyond this doorway is the most holy place.” He first measured the doorway: It was one meter wide, 3 meters long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was 3.5 meters. Then he measured the most holy place, and it was 10 meters square.
The Storage Rooms of the Temple
5 The man measured the wall of the temple, and it was three meters thick. Storage rooms two meters wide were built against the outside of the wall. 6 There were three levels of rooms, with 30 rooms on each level, and they rested on ledges that were attached to the temple walls, so that nothing was built into the walls. 7 The walls of the temple were thicker at the bottom than at the top, which meant that the storage rooms on the top level were wider than those on the bottom level. Steps led from the bottom level, through the middle level, and into the top level.
8 The temple rested on a stone base three meters high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms. 9 The outside walls of the storage rooms were two and a half meters thick; there was nothing between these walls 10 and the nearest buildings ten meters away. 11 One door led into the storage rooms on the north side of the temple, and another door led to those on the south side. The stone base extended two and a half meters beyond the outside wall of the storage rooms.
The West Building and the Measurements of the Temple
12 I noticed another building: It faced the west end of the temple and was 35 meters wide, 45 meters long, and had walls over 2.5 meters thick.
13 The man measured the length of the temple, and it was 50 meters. He then measured from the back wall of the temple, across the open space behind the temple, to the back wall of the west building; it was 50 meters. 14 The distance across the front of the temple, including the open space on either side, was also 50 meters.
15 Finally, the man measured the length of the west building, including the side rooms on each end, and it was also 50 meters.
The Inside of the Temple
The inside walls of the temple's porch and main room 16 were paneled with wood all the way from the floor to the windows, while the doorways, the small windows, and the three side rooms were trimmed in wood. 17 The paneling stopped just above the doorway. These walls were decorated 18-20 with carvings of winged creatures and had a carving of a palm tree between the creatures. Each winged creature had two faces: A human face looking at the palm tree on one side, and a lion's face looking at the palm tree on the other side. These designs were carved into the paneling all the way around the two rooms.
21 The doorframe to the temple's main room was in the shape of a rectangle.
The Wooden Altar
In front of the doorway to the most holy place was something that looked like 22 a wooden altar. It was one and a half meters high and one meter square, and its corners, its base, and its sides were made of wood. The man said, “This is a reminder that the Lord is constantly watching over his temple.”
The Doors in the Temple
23 Both the doorway to the main room of the temple and the doorway to the most holy place had two doors, 24 and each door had two sections that could fold open. 25 The doors to the main room were decorated with carvings of winged creatures and palm trees just like those on the walls, and there was a wooden covering over the porch just outside these doors. 26 The walls on each side of this porch had small windows and were also decorated with carvings of palm trees.
