⁷ The alcoves^(A) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits^[a] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

¹⁰ Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements.

²¹ Its alcoves^(A)—three on each side—its projecting walls and its portico^(B) had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.