Eight Tables for Sacrifices

38 There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico [fn] in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed. 39 Inside 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.

40 Outside, 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. 41 So there were four tables inside the gateway and four outside—eight tables in all—on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

42 There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high.[fn] On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.

43 The double-pronged hooks,[fn] each a handbreadth long,[fn] were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.