The South Gate

The south-facing gate on the outer court is measured and found to match the others in its side pillars, portico, windows, overall size, steps, and palm-tree decoration. The guide also measures from this south gateway to the inner-court gate and finds one hundred cubits, just as elsewhere.

T²⁴hen he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others. ²⁵Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ²⁶Seven steps led up to it, and its portico was opposite them; it had palm trees on its side pillars, one on each side. ²⁷The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits.