41 Altogether there were eight tables on which the animals to be sacrificed were killed: four inside the room and four out in the courtyard.
42 The four tables in the annexe, used to prepare the offerings to be burnt whole, were of cut stone. They were fifty centimetres high, and their tops were 75 centimetres square. All the equipment used in killing the sacrificial animals was kept on these tables.
43 Ledges 25 millimetres wide ran round the edge of the tables. All the meat to be offered in sacrifice was placed on the tables.
44 Then he brought me into the inner courtyard. There were two rooms opening on the inner courtyard, one facing south beside the north gateway and the other facing north beside the south gateway.
45 The man told me that the room which faced south was for the priests who served in the Temple,
46 and the room which faced north was for the priests who served at the altar. All the priests are descended from Zadok; they are the only members of the tribe of Levi who are permitted to go into the Lord's presence to serve him.
47 The man measured the inner courtyard, and it was fifty metres square. The Temple was on the west side, and in front of it was an altar.