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12 and like the doorways of the chambers which were on the way of the south was a doorway at the head of the way[a] before the stone wall, projecting[b] on[c] the way of the east at their coming.[d]

13 And he said to me, “The chambers of the north and the chambers of the south which are before[e] the courtyard, they are the holy chambers[f] in which the priests, who are near to Yahweh, will eat the most holy objects.[g] There they shall put the most holy objects,[h] and the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter,[i] then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must put[j] their garments in which they serve because they are holy. They must put on other garments and then they may approach the area that is for the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:12 Dropping one “way”
  2. Ezekiel 42:12 Or “protecting wall”
  3. Ezekiel 42:12 Or “toward”
  4. Ezekiel 42:12 That is, when people entered the complex
  5. Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “to the front of”
  6. Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “are the chambers of the holiness”
  7. Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “holy objects of the holy objects”
  8. Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “holy objects of the holy objects”
  9. Ezekiel 42:14 Literally “at coming their”
  10. Ezekiel 42:14 Or “deposit/leave/remove”