So he measured the house, &c.] The buildings being thus platformed, he now cometh to take their measure, which he casteth into a square, though there was some difference in the posture of the buildings and face of the floore of the Close or inner Court: For first, he beginneth from the porch which stood before the house, and measureth the breadth of that eleven cubits, then sixe cubits cloister betwixt that and the holy place: fourty cubits the length of the holy place: twenty the length of the most holy place, about a cubit the breadth of the wall that went up as a rib to carry the sides of the chambers towards the Temple, and five cubits to the further sides of the chambers toward the separate place, and the separate place it selfe at the West end about seventeene cubits, in all an hundred: these measures he measured along the walls of the building that stood joyned to the Temple. Then laid he his measure to the chambers that stood outfacing these at twentie cubits distance on the North, and South sides, and measured just the same length from the first building that stood most East to the East point of the buildings the chambers of the Priests that stood behind the Oracle. So that would you walk about the Temple before you entred into it, take in on the right hand, or on the South side, and there was a faire walke betwixt goodly buildings or chambers of twenty cubits broad: after eighty three, or eighty foure cubits walking you might turne into another walke on the left hand, or at the West end of seventeene cubits broad: There, after you had paced thirty or two and thirty cubits, you might turne on your left hand againe, into a walke on the North side just proportionable and agreeable to that where you began on the South. Now at the East end, betwixt the buildings of the East gate and the front of the porch of the Temple, there was an empty place of what space in breadth it is uncertaine, but most likely of the same with the separate place at the West end of seventeene cubits: but the length of it, viz. from North to South, was an hundred cubits, which were taken up thus: twenty in the breadth of the house, twenty on either side the house in the separate place, and twenty in the thicknesse of the buildings on either side of the separate place. So that this space at the East end was an hundred cubits long, and seventeene cubits broad, a plaine flat, or floore before you came to any of the buildings either of the house it selfe, or of the chambers.