“There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.”
Ezekiel 40:38 (BSB)
Context Reading
36as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 37Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees on each side. Eight steps led up to it. 38There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed. 39Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered. 40Outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.