30. Each porch of each inner gateway was about forty-four feet long and about nine feet wide.
31. The inner south gateway’s porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its side walls, and its stairway had eight steps.
32. The man brought me into the inner courtyard on the east side. He measured the inner east gateway, and it was the same as the other gateways.
33. The inner east gateway’s rooms, inside walls, and porch measured the same as the other gateways. Windows were all around the gateway and its porch. The inner east gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.
34. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
35. Then the man brought me to the inner north gateway. He measured it, and it was the same as the other gateways.
36. Its rooms, inner walls, and porch measured the same as the other gateways. There were windows all around the gateway, which was eighty-seven and one-half feet long and forty-four feet wide.
37. Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Carvings of palm trees were on its inner walls on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.
38. There was a room with a door that opened onto the porch of the inner north gateway. In this room the priests washed animals for the burnt offerings.
39. There were two tables on each side of the porch, on which animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings, and penalty offerings were killed.
40. Outside, by each side wall of the porch, at the entrance to the north gateway, were two more tables.
41. So there were four tables inside the gateway, and four tables outside. In all there were eight tables on which the priests killed animals for sacrifices.