17 Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. I saw rooms and a pavement of stones. Thirty rooms were along the edge of the paved walkway.
18 The pavement ran alongside the gates. It was as long as the gates were wide. This was the lower pavement.
19 Then the man measured from the outer wall to the inner wall. The outer court between these two walls was 175 feet on the east and on the north.
20 The man measured the length and width of the gate leading to the outer courtyard. It faced north.
21 It had three rooms on each side. Its inner walls and its porch measured the same as the first gate. It was 87½ feet long. And it was 44 feet wide.
22 Its windows, porch and carvings of palm trees measured the same as the east gate. Seven steps went up to the gate. And the gate’s porch was opposite them.
23 The inner courtyard had a gate across from the northern gate like the one on the east. The man measured it and found it was 175 feet from inner gate to outer gate.