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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。
The Rooms for the Priests
1Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side. 2The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.42:2 That is, about 175 feet long and 88 feet wide or about 53 meters long and 27 meters wide 3Both in the section twenty cubits42:3 That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery at the three levels. 4In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits42:4 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew and one cubit long.42:4 That is, about 18 feet wide and 175 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 53 meters long Their doors were on the north. 5Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building. 6The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. 7There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. 8While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long. 9The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
10On the south side42:10 Septuagint; Hebrew Eastward along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms 11with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north 12were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
13Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings42:13 Or purification offerings and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy. 14Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”
15When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around: 16He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.42:16 See Septuagint of verse 17; Hebrew rods; also in verses 18 and 19.42:16 Five hundred cubits equal about 875 feet or about 265 meters; also in verses 17, 18 and 19. 17He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits42:17 Septuagint; Hebrew rods by the measuring rod. 18He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. 19Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod. 20So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
