Inside the Temple
The guide leads Ezekiel into the temple and measures the side pillars, the width of the entrance, and the size of the outer sanctuary. He then goes into the inner sanctuary, measures its doorway and walls, and identifies the twenty-cubit square room beyond as the Most Holy Place. The movement and measurements together emphasize increasing sanctity as one passes deeper into the house.
T1hen the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side. 2The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits. 3And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide. 4Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place. ”