Measuring the Outer Court Gates

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Next he measured the length and width of the outer courtyard gate that faced north.

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It had three guardrooms on each side, and its supports and vestibule were the same size as those at the first gate; its length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and its width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.

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Its windows, vestibule and palm trees were the same size as those at the east gate. Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside.

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There were gates to the inner courtyard across from the gates to the north and east; he measured 175 feet from each outer gate to its corresponding inner gate.

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He led me toward the south, and there I saw a gate that faced south. He measured its supports and vestibule; they were the same size as the others.

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There were windows in it and all around its vestibule like the other windows; the length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and the width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.

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Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside. It had palm trees, one on each side, on its supports.

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The inner courtyard had a gate on the south; he measured from gate to gate toward the south 175 feet.

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