44 The man then took me to the inner courtyard, where I saw two buildings, one beside the inner gate on the north and the other beside the inner gate on the south.
45 He said, “The building beside the north gate belongs to the priests who serve in the temple,
46 and the building beside the south gate belongs to those who serve at the altar. All of them are descendants of Zadok and are the only Levites allowed to serve as the Lord's priests.”
47 Now the man measured the inner courtyard; it was fifty metres square. I also saw an altar in front of the temple.
48 We walked to the porch of the temple, and the man measured the doorway of the porch: it was seven metres long, two and a half metres wide, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was one and a half metres.
49 The porch itself was ten metres by six metres, with steps leading up to it. There was a column on each side of these steps.