Ezekiel 41:1-9 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: it was three metres wide,

2. five metres long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was two and a half metres. The main room itself was twenty metres by ten metres.

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 metre wide, three metres long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was three and a half metres. Then he measured the most holy place, and it was ten metres square.

5. The man measured the wall of the temple, and it was three metres thick. Storage rooms two metres wide were built against the outside of the wall.

6. There were three levels of rooms, with thirty 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 metres high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms.

9. The outside walls of the storage rooms were two and a half metres thick; there was nothing between these walls

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 panelling all the way around the two rooms.

Ezekiel 41