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Ecclesiastes Chapter 42

1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the

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

3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court,

4 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward,

5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were

6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the

7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward

8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was

9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as

10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court

11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers

12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the

13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers,

14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he

16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred

17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the

18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the

19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred

20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about,