Beyond it there was a passageway, which had three guardrooms on each side. Each of the rooms was square, 10 feet on each side, and the walls between them were 8 feet thick. Beyond the guardrooms there was a passageway 10 feet long that led to an entrance room which faced the Temple.

(These guardrooms on each side of the passageway were all the same size, and the walls between them were all of the same thickness.)

In front of each of the guardrooms there was a low wall 20 inches high and 20 inches thick. (The rooms were 10 feet square.)

The room at the far end led out to a courtyard. He measured that room and found it was 34 feet wide.

There were small openings in the outside walls of all the rooms and also in the inner walls between the rooms. There were palm trees carved on the inner walls that faced the passageway.

There were small openings in the outside walls of all the rooms and also in the inner walls between the rooms. There were palm trees carved on the inner walls that faced the passageway.

Seven steps led up to it, and its entrance room was also at the end facing the courtyard. There were palm trees carved on the inner walls that faced the passageway.

(SEE 40:29)

The entrance room faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees were carved on the walls along the passageway. Eight steps led up to this gate.

He measured this room and found it was 14 feet deep. It formed that end of the gateway which was nearest the Temple, and at its far end the walls were 4 feet thick.

(These guardrooms on each side of the passageway were all the same size, and the walls between them were all of the same thickness.)

Then he measured the distance from the back wall of one room to the back wall of the room across the passageway from it, and it was 42 feet.

The total length of the gateway from the outside wall of the gate to the far side of the last room was 84 feet.

There were windows in the rooms of this gateway just as in the others. The total length of the gateway was 84 feet and the width 42 feet.

Its guardrooms, its entrance room, and its inner walls were the same size as those in the other gateways. There were also windows in the rooms of this gateway. The total length was 84 feet and the width 42 feet.