“And he measured the gate according to those measures.¹ Its cells, its pillars, and its vestibules were of those measures. There were windows in it and in its vestibules all around. It was fifty cubits high,² and twenty-five cubits wide.”³ 40:32-33. This means there were 25 cubits between the edge of the cell on one side and the edge of the cell opposite it. “Its vestibules were toward the outer courtyard. There were palm-like coronets on its pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.”⁴:34.

footnotes: ¹ I.e., with the same measures used for measuring the gate of the Outer Courtyard. ² As mentioned above in sec. 3, although the term ארך usually means “long,” here it means “high.” ³ Yechez­kel ⁴ Ibid.

Tractate Middos states⁵ 2:5. that the Second Beis HaMikdash had “fifteen steps leading from [the Women’s Courtyard] to the Courtyard of the Israelites, corresponding to the fifteen “Songs of Ascent” in Tehillim. The Levites would stand on these steps and sing songs. [The steps] were not rectangular, but semi-circular instead.”

footnotes: ⁵ Middos