43. Within were hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around. And on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
44. Outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the east gate facing north.
45. He said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.
46. The chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near to the Lord to minister to Him.”
47. So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, foursquare. And the altar was before the temple.