e attic, trap-doors opened to the Holy of Holies.
Through them they let down the workmen in boxes, lest they should feast
their eyes in the Holy of Holies.

6. The Sanctuary was a square of 100 cubits, and its height 100. The
foundation six cubits, and the height (of the wall) forty cubits, and the
string course(588) one cubit, and the rain channel two cubits, and the
beams one cubit, and the covering plaster one cubit; and the height of the
upper story was forty cubits, and the string course one cubit, and the
rain channel two cubits, and the beams one cubit, and the covering plaster
one cubit, and the battlement three cubits, and the scarecrow one cubit.
Rabbi Judah said, "the scarecrow was not counted in the measurement; but
the battlement was four cubits."

7. From east to west there were 100 cubits, the wall of the porch five,
and the porch eleven, and the wall of the Sanctuary six, and the interior
forty, and the partition space (between the Vails) one, and the Holy of
Holies twenty cubits. The wall of the Sanctuary was six, and the little
chamber six, and the wall of the little chamber five. From north to south
there were seventy (cubits). The wall of the gallery five, the gallery
three, the wall of the little chamber five, the little chamber six, the
wall of the Sanctuary six, its interior twenty, the wall of the Sanctuary
six, the little chamber six, the wall of the little chamber five, the
place of the descent of the water three, and the wall five cubits. The
porch was extended beyond it fifteen cubits in the north, and fifteen in
the south; and this space was called, "the house of the instruments of
slaughter," because the knives were there deposited. And the Sanctuary was
narrow behind and broad in the front, and it was like a lion, as is said,
"Ho! Ariel, the city where David dwelt,(589) as a lion is narrow behind
and broad in front, so the Sanctuary is narrow behind and broad in front."

OUR BEAUTY BE UPON THEE, DOOR OF THE SANCTUARY.

Chapter V

1. The length of the whole court(590) was 187 cubits. The breadth 135.
From east to west 187. The place for the tread of the feet of Israel was
eleven cubits. The place for the tread of the priests eleven cubits. The
altar thirty-two. Between the porch and the altar twenty-two cubits. The
temple 100 cubits; and eleven cubits behind the House of Atonement.

2. From north to south there were 135 cubits. From the sloping ascent to
the altar sixty-two. From