¹⁶ Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit^[a] high all around.^[b] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

⁸ When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines^(A) looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

¹⁵ So she let them down by a rope^(A) through the window,^(B) for the house she lived in was part of the city wall.

²¹ “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.”

So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord^(A) in the window.^(B)

⁴ He made narrow windows^(A) high up in the temple walls.

¹⁶ The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.^(A)

The Outer Court

¹⁷ Then he brought me into the outer court.^(B) There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms^(C) along the pavement.^{(D) 18} It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement. ¹⁹ Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court;^(E) it was a hundred cubits^[a](F) on the east side as well as on the north.

The North Gate

²⁰ Then he measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court. ²¹ Its alcoves^(G)—three on each side—its projecting walls and its portico^(H) had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ²² Its openings, its portico^(I) and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.^{(J) 23} There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured from one gate to the opposite one; it was a hundred cubits.^(K)

The South Gate

²⁴ Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements^(L) as the others. ²⁵ The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.^{(M) 26} Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them; it had palm tree decorations on the faces of the projecting walls on each side.^{(N) 27} The inner court^(O) also had a gate facing south, and he measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side; it was a hundred cubits.^(P)

The Gates to the Inner Court

²⁸ Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements^(Q) as the others. ²⁹ Its alcoves,^(R) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.^{(S) 30} (The porticoes^(T) of the gateways around the inner court were twenty-five cubits wide and five cubits deep.) ³¹ Its portico^(U) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its jambs, and eight steps led up to it.^(V)

³² Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements^(W) as the others. ³³ Its alcoves,^(X) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁴ Its portico^(Y) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.

³⁵ Then he brought me to the north gate^(Z) and measured it. It had the same measurements^(AA) as the others, ³⁶ as did its alcoves,^(AB) its projecting walls and its portico, and it had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.