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祭司の部屋
1それから、その人は私を神殿から連れ出し、内庭にある神殿の北側の部屋と、もう一つの建物に連れて行きました。 2これらの建物のある場所は、長さが百キュビト、幅が五十キュビトありました。 3この建物の裏に階段式の小部屋があり、庭の内側の壁になっていました。この階段式の小部屋は三階までありました。その片側から外庭が見渡せ、もう一方の側は長さ二十キュビトの内庭に面していました。 4その建物と階段式の小部屋との間に、幅十キュビト、全長百キュビトの通路があり、その建物の入口は北に向いていました。 5二階、三階と上に行くほど通路が広くなり、その分だけ部屋が狭くなりました。 6この建物は、外庭の建物と違って大梁を用いていないため、上の階へ行くにしたがって狭くなっていたのです。 7-8北側に並んだ階段式の小部屋は外庭に続いており、その全長は五十キュビトでした。神殿の内庭に面した側は百キュビトあったので、その半分の長さです。外側の塀が、短い側の端から長い側へと平行して伸びていました。
9-10外庭からこれらの小部屋へ入る入口は東側にありました。神殿をはさんで反対側にも、神殿と外庭との間にある内庭の南側に、同じように二組の建物がありました。構造は北側のものと全く同じでした。 11庭の向こう側の建物と同じように、この二組の建物の間にも通路があり、建物の長さも幅も、出入口も戸も全く同じでした。 12また、外庭からの入口は東側にありました。
13その人は私にこう言いました。「この、神殿に面している北と南の階段式の部屋は、聖なる部屋だ。そこで、神にいけにえをささげる祭司たちが、最も聖なるいけにえである、穀物のささげ物、罪の赦しのためのいけにえ、罪過を償ういけにえを食べたり、たくわえたりするのだ。 14祭司は聖所（神殿の本堂）を出るときには、外庭へ出る前に服を着替えなければならない。聖所で仕えるときに着る服は聖なるものだから、まずそれを脱がなければならない。だれもが入れる場所へ行くときには、他の服に着替えなければならない。」
15その人は神殿を測り終えると、私を東の門から連れ出して、神殿の周囲を測りました。 16-20それは五百キュビト平方で、ほかの公共の場所と区別するために塀で囲まれていました。
1Then 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. 2Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3Over 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. 4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.42.5 were higher…: or, did eat of these42.5 than the lower…: or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost 6For 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. 7And 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. 8For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.42.9 from under: or, from the place42.9 the entry: or, he that brought me42.9 as…: or, as he came 10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. 11And 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. 12And 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. 14When 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.
15Now 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. 16He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.42.16 side: Heb. wind 17He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 18He 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. 20He 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.
