इजकिएल 42

1 तब त्यो मानिसले मलाई बाहिरी चोकमा लिएर गयो जो उत्तरतिर फर्केको थियो। उसले ती कोठाहरूमा लिएर गयो जुन भवनको चोकको पारिपट्टि थियो।

2 भवनको 100 हात लामो अनि 50 हात चौडा थियो। मानिसहरू यसको उत्तर पट्टिको आंगनबाट प्रवेश गर्थे।

3 भवन तीन तला अग्लो अनि बरण्डाहरू थिए। भवन अनि मन्दिरको बीचमा भित्री आँगन 20 हात लामो थियो। अर्कोपट्टि कोठा बाहिर चोकको ढुङ्ग ओछ्याएको पिडीतिर फर्केका थियो।

4 त्यस कोठाको अर्को तिर एउटा लामो भित्री बाटो थियो। त्यो भित्र पुग्थ्यो। यो दश हात चौडा, एक सय हात लामो थियो। यो भवनको उत्तर पट्टि थियो।

5 माथिको कोठा अत्यन्तै साँघुरो थियो किनकि बरण्डाले बीच अनि तल्लो तलाको भन्दा बेशीठाँउ ओगटेको थियो।

6 कोठा तीन तलामाथि थियो। बाहिरी चोकको जस्तै त्यसको स्तम्भ थिएन। यसकारण माथिल्लो कोठा बीचको कोठा अनि तल्लो तलाको कोठाहरू भन्दा ज्यादा पछाडी थियो।

7 त्यहाँ बाहिर एउटा भित्ता थियो। त्यो कोठाहरूको सामान्तरमा थियो। यो बाहिरी चोक सम्म जान्थ्यो। यो कोठाहरूको छेउ-छेउमा थियो। यो पचास हात बढेको थियो।

8 बाहरी चोकपट्टि फर्केको कोठाहरू पचास हात लामो अनि मन्दिर तिर फर्केका कोठाहरू एक सय हात लामो थिए।

9 यो कोठाहरूको बीचमा प्रवेशद्वार थियो। जुन बाहिरी चोकबाट पूर्व सम्म जान्थ्यो।

10 बाहिरी भित्ताको आरम्भमा दक्षिणपट्टि भवनको चोकको छेउ अनि भवनको भित्ताको बाहिर कोठाहरू थिए।

11 यी कोठाहरूको छेउमा एउटा ठूलो द्वार थियो। त्यो उत्तर कोठाहरूको छेउमा थियो। दक्षिणको द्वारको लमाई चौडाइमा त्यति नै नापको थियो जति उत्तरको थियो। दक्षिणको नाप द्वार, रूपाकृत्ति अनि प्रवेश द्वारको दृष्टिबाट उत्तरका द्वारहरूको बराबर थियो।

12 दक्षिणी कोठाहरूको तल एउटा द्वार थियो यो लामो भित्रीबाटो सम्म पुग्थ्यो। दक्षिणको कोठाको पारी एउटा छुट्याउने पर्खाल थियो।

14 पूजाहारी पवित्र स्थानमा प्रवेश गर्छन। तर बाहिर चोकमा जानु भन्दा पहिला ऊ आफ्नो वस्त्र पवित्र स्थानमा राख्छ। किन? किनकि यो वस्त्र पवित्र छ। यदि पूजाहारीले चाह्यो भने उ त्यो मन्दिरको त्यस ठाँउमा जान सक्छ जहाँ अरूहरू बस्छन्। त्यसैले तिनीहरू त्यो कोठामा जानु पर्छ अनि अरू लुगा लगाउनुपर्छ।”

15 त्यो मानिसले जब मन्दिर भित्रको क्षेत्रको नाप लिई सकेको थियो, त्यति बेला त्यो मूल-ढोकाबाट मलाई बाहिर ल्यायो जुन पूर्वपट्टि थियो। उसले बाहिर चारैतिर नाप्यो।

16 त्यस मानिसले टाँगोले पूर्वपट्टि नाप्यो। यो पाँच सय हात लामो थियो।

17 त्यसले उत्तरपट्टि नाप्यो। त्यो पाँचसय हात लामो थियो।

18 उसले दक्षिणपट्टि नाप्यो। त्यो पाँच सय हात लामो थियो।

19 त्यो पश्चिम पट्टि गयो अनि त्यहाँ नाप्यो। त्यो पाँच सय हात लामो थियो।

20 उसले मन्दिरको चारै पट्टि नाप्यो। त्यो भित्ता चारैतिर गएको थियो। भित्ता पाँच सय हात लामो अनि पाँच सय हात चौडाको थियो। यसले पवित्र क्षेत्रलाई अपवित्र क्षेत्रबाट अलग राखेको थियो।

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.