Ezekiel — Chapter 42

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1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

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Ezekiel — Chapter 42

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• **Kiddushin 70a** teaches that a scholar who is great in Torah should eat his meal in the company of great ones — the priestly chambers (42:13-14) where the priests eat the most holy offerings and lay down their ministering garments are the divine mess hall and armory combined; the Talmud's rules about sacred food are derived from exactly these chambers.

• **Yoma 25a** discusses the changing of priestly vestments — the command that priests must lay down their holy garments before going to the outer court (42:14) is the divine security protocol: the interface between the holy and the common requires a controlled transition zone; the Sitra Achra's attack on holiness always begins at this transition zone, and the chambers provide an armored buffer.

• **Berakhot 58a** prescribes a blessing on seeing houses of Torah study — the priestly chambers are the divine study hall as well as the dining hall; the life of the new Temple is structured around the alternation of worship, learning, and eating in the divine presence; all three activities occur within measured, secure, second-heaven-defined space.

• **Zevachim 116b** discusses the holiness gradient from the Holy of Holies outward — the wall that surrounds the whole Temple (42:20) separating holy from common is the final perimeter of the divine foothold in the first heaven; within this wall the Sitra Achra has no standing or access; it is the permanent defensive perimeter that chapter 48 will extend to the entire holy district.

• **Middot 2:1** measures the Temple Mount — the five-hundred-cubit square of the outer measurement (42:20) is the Talmudic number for the minimum sacred precinct; the new Temple's outer wall at exactly this scale confirms that the divine architect is calibrating to the established parameters of legitimate divine residence in the first heaven.

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