1 وجاءَ بـي إلى الهَيكلِ وقاسَ الأُطُرَ فكانَت سِتَّ أذرعٍ عَرضا مِنْ هُنا وسِتَّ أذرعٍ عَرضا مِنْ هُناكَ. 2 وعَرضُ المَدخلِ عشْرُ أذرعٍ وجَوانبُ المَدخلِ خمسُ أذرعٍ مِنْ هُنا وخمسُ أذرعٍ مِنْ هُناكَ. وقاسَ الهَيكلَ فكانَ طُولُه أربعينَ ذِراعا وعرضُهُ عشرينَ ذِراعا. 3 وجاءَ إلى الدَّاخلِ وقاسَ المَدخلَ فكانَت سماكتُهُ ذِراعَينِ وعَرضُهُ سِتَّ أذرعٍ وجانباهُ سبعَ أذرعٍ لكُلٍّ مِنهُما. 4 وقاسَ الدَّاخلَ فكانَ طُولُه عشرينَ ذِراعا وعَرضُهُ عشرينَ ذِراعا مُقابلَ وجهِ الهَيكلِ، وقالَ لي: «هذا هوَ قُدسُ الأقداسِ».
5 وقاسَ سماكةَ حائطِ الهَيكلِ فإذا هيَ سِتُّ أذرعٍ وعَرضُ كُلِّ غُرفةٍ أربعُ أذرعٍ حَولَهُ مِنْ كُلِّ جهةٍ. 6 والطَّبقاتُ ثلاثٌ وفي كُلِّ طبَقةٍ ثلاثونَ غُرفةً، وفي الحائطِ الّذي حَولَ الهَيكلِ نتوءات تعتمدُ علَيها كُلُّ طبَقةٍ ولا تعتمدُ على حائطِ الهَيكلِ. 7 وكانَتِ الغُرَفُ تزدادُ عَرضا كُلَّما صَعِدت مِنْ طَبقةٍ إلى طَبقةٍ وَفْقَ النُّتوء في كُلِّ طَبقةٍ مِنْ حَولِ الهَيكلِ. وبِـجانبِ الهَيكلِ درجاتٌ تؤدِّي مِنْ أسفلِهِ إلى أعلاهُ مُرورا بأوسَطِهِ. 8 ورَأيتُ للهَيكلِ شُرفةً على مُحيطِهِ. وكانَت أسُسُ الغُرَفِ قصبةً تامَّةً، أيْ سِتَّ أذرعٍ. 9 وسماكةُ حائطِ الغُرَفِ مِنْ خارجٍ خمسُ أذرعٍ، والفسحةُ الباقيةُ هيَ داخلُ غُرَفِ الهَيكلِ. 10 وعرضُ كُلِّ غُرفةٍ عشرونَ ذِراعا مِنْ حَولِ الهَيكلِ، 11 وللغُرَفِ عِندَ الفسحةِ الباقيةِ مَدخلانِ، واحدٌ نحوَ الشِّمالِ وآخرُ نحوَ الجَنوبِ، وعَرضُ الفسحةِ الباقيةِ خمسُ أذرعٍ على مُحيطِ الهَيكلِ. 12 وقُبالةَ السَّاحةِ جهةَ الغربِ بناءٌ عرضُهُ سبعونَ ذِراعا، وسماكةُ حائطِهِ خمسُ أذرعٍ على المُحيطِ وطُولُه تسعونَ ذِراعا.
13 وقاسَ الهَيكلَ فكانَ طُولُه مئةَ ذراعٍ، والسَّاحةُ والبِناءُ وحيطانُهُ فكانَ طُولُها مئةَ ذراعٍ. 14 وقاسَ عَرضَ وجهِ الهَيكلِ والسَّاحةَ مِنْ جهةِ الشَّرقِ فكانَ مئةَ ذراعٍ.
15 وقاسَ طُولَ البِناءِ الّذي مِنْ جهةِ الغربِ معَ ممرَّاتِهِ مِنْ هُنا ومِنْ هُناكَ فكانَ مئةَ ذراعٍ. والهَيكلُ الدَّاخليُّ وأروِقةُ الدَّارِ 16 والعتباتُ والنَّوافذُ المُشبَّكةُ والأبوابُ حَولَ الطَّبقاتِ الثَّلاثِ كانَت مُغَطَّاةً بالخشَبِ مِنَ الأرضِ إلى النَّوافذِ. وكانَتِ النَّوافذُ مُغطَّاةً. 17 وما فَوقَ المَدخلِ، وداخلَ البـيتِ وخارجَهُ، والحائطُ كُلُّه على مُحيطِهِ مِنْ داخلٍ ومِنْ خارجٍ كانَ مُزيَّنا كُلُّه. 18 فيهِ كَروبـيمُ، ونخيلٌ بَينَ كَروبٍ وكَروبٍ. وللكَروبِ وجهانِ: 19 وجهُ بشَرٍ نحوَ النَّخلةِ مِنْ هُنا، ووجهُ أسدٍ نحوَ النَّخلةِ مِنْ هُناكَ. هكذا كانَ كُلُّ الهَيكلِ مُزيَّنا على مُحيطِهِ. 20 ومِنَ الأرضِ إلى ما فَوقَ المَدخلِ كَروبـيمُ ونخيلٌ منقوشٌ، وكذلِكَ على حائطِ الهَيكلِ. 21 وأعمِدةُ الهَيكلِ مُربَّعةٌ، وأمامَ المَقدِسِ ما يُشبِهُ 22 مذبَحا مِنَ الخشَبِ، سماكتُهُ ثلاثُ أذرعٍ وطُولُه ذِراعٌ وعرضُهُ ذِراعانِ، وزواياهُ وقاعدتُهُ وجُدرانُهُ مِنْ خشَبٍ. وقالَ ليَ الرَّجلُ: «هذِهِ هيَ المائدةُ الّتي أمامَ الرّبِّ». 23 وللهَيكلِ والقُدسِ بابانِ، 24 ولكُلِّ بابٍ مِصراعانِ يُفتَحانِ في الوسَطِ. 25 وكانَ منقوشا على أبوابِ الهَيكلِ كَروبـيمُ ونخيلٌ كما هوَ منقوشٌ على الحيطانِ. وكانَ إفريزٌ مِنْ خشَبٍ على وجهِ الرِّواقِ مِنْ خارجٍ. 26 وكانَت نوافذُ مُشبَّكةٌ، ونخيلٌ مِنْ هُنا ومِنْ هُناكَ على جَوانبِ الرِّواقِ وعلى غُرَفِ البـيتِ والأفاريزِ.
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.