¶ The disposy••yon and deuyce of buyldynge agayne the ••••••ple, •• of the other thynges therto belongy••e.
CAPI. XLI.
AFTER thys he brought me to the tē∣ple / [unspec A] and measured the postes: whiche were of bothe the sydes. vj. cubytes thycke / accordynge to the wydenesse of the taberna∣cle. The bredth of the dore was. x. cubytes and the walles of the dore on eyther syde fy∣ne cubytes. He measured the length therof / whyche contayned. xl. Cubytes / and the bredth. xx. Then wente he in / and measured the dore postes, whiche were two cubytes thycke; but the dore it selfe was syxe cubite and the bredth of the dore was. vij. cubytes. He measured the length and bredth therof / whiche were euery one. xx. cubytes / before the temple.
And he sayde vnto me: this is the holyest of al. He measured also the wal of the house whiche was syxe cubytes. The chambres that stode rounde aboute the house / were e∣uery one foure cubytes wyde, and one stode harde vpon another / whereof there were. xxxiij. there stode postes beneth by the wal∣les rounde aboute the house / to beare them vp: but in the wal of the house they were not fastened: The syde chambers were / the hyer the wyder / and had steppes thorowe them [unspec B] rounde about the house. Thus was it wider aboue, that from the lowest, men myght go to the hyest and myd chambers. I sawe also that the house was very hye rounde aboute. The foundacion of the syde chambers was a meterodde (that is syxe cubytes brode.) The thyckenes of the syde wal without / con¦tayned fyue cubites, and so dyd the out wall of the chambers in the house.
Betwene the chambers was the wyde∣nes. xx. cubytes rounde aboute the house. The chambre dores stode ouer agaynste the outwal / the one dore was towarde the Nor∣the / the other towarde the South: and the thyckenesse of the outwall was. v. cubytes rounde aboute. Nowe the buyldynge that was seperated towarde the West / was. lxx. cubytes wyde: the wall of the buyldynge was, v. cubytes thycke rounde aboute / and the length foure score cubytes and ten. So he measured the house whyche was an. C. cubytes longe, and the seperated buyldynge with the wall were an. C. cubytes long also The wydenes before the house and of it that was seperated towarde the East / was an. C. cubytes.
And he measured the length of the buyl∣dynge before and behynde wyth the chābers [unspec C] vpon both the sydes: and it contayned an. C cubytes. The ynnermer temple, the porch of the fore court / the syde postes, these thre had syde wyndowes / and pyllers rounde aboute ouer agaynste the postes, from the grounde vp to the wyndowes: The wyndowes them selues were syled ouer with bordes: & thus was it aboue the dore vnto the in most house and without also: Yee the whole wall on eue¦rye syde both within and without was syled ouer with greate bordes. There were Che∣rubins and date trees made also, so that one [unspec D] date tre stode euer betwyxte two Cherubins One Cherub had. ij. faces, the face of a man lokynge a syde towarde the date tre, and a lyons face on the other syde. Thus was it made rounde aboute in al the house: Yee, the Cherubyns & date trees were made from the groūde vp aboue the dore, and so stode they also vpon the wall of the temple.
The by postes of the temple were foure squared, and the fashyon of the Sanctuary was * 1.1 euen as it appered vnto me a fore in y• visyon. * 1.2 The table was of wodde, thre cu∣bites hye and two cubites long: his corners, the length and the walles were of wodde. And he sayd vnto me: This is the table, that shall stande before the Lorde. The temple & the holyest of all had either of thē two dores & euery dore had two lytle wyckettes which were folden in one vpon another / on euerye syde two. And vpon the dores of the temple there were made Cherubins and date trees, lyke as vpon the walles: and a great thycke balke of wod was before on the out syde of y• porche. Upon both the sides of the walles of the porche, there were made depe windowes