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14 Soothly when priests have entered, they shall not go out of (the) holy things into the outermore foreyard; and there they shall put up their clothes in which they minister, for those be holy; and they shall be clothed in other clothes, and so they shall go forth to the people. (And when the priests have entered, they shall not go out of the Holy Place, or out of the Temple, into the outer courtyard, until they have put away, or have left, their clothes there, in which they minister, for those clothes be holy; and after that they be clothed in other clothes, then they shall go out to the people.)

15 And when he had filled the measures of the inner house, he led me out by the way of the gate that beheld to the east way; and he meted it on each side by compass. (And when he had finished the measurements of the inner temple, he led me out by the gateway that faced east; and he measured it on each side all around.)

16 Forsooth he meted against the east wind with the reed of measure, by compass five hundred reeds [five hundred rods], in a reed of measure by compass. (And he measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred cubits[a] in length.)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:16 For verses 16-20, some modern translations state the measurements as cubits, not rods.