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Ezekiel 42:4-13

4 In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

5 Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

6 The rooms on the third floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.

7 There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.

8 While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.

9 The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms

11 with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north

12 were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.

13 Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.

Cross References for Ezekiel 42:4-13

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Ezekiel 42:1 - Rooms for the Priests Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the ... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 42:1 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 42:1

Ezekiel 40:17 - The Outer Court Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement ... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 40:17 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 40:17

Ezekiel 41:9 - The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 41:9 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 41:9

Ezekiel 41:11 - There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the ... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 41:11 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 41:11

Ezekiel 46:19 - Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate to the sacred rooms facing... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 46:19 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 46:19

Ezekiel 42:11 - with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same l... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 42:11 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 42:11