43 There were three-inch[a] hooks[b] fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

Rooms for Singers and Priests

44 Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:[c](A) one[d] beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south[e] gate, facing north. 45 Then the man said to me: “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:43 Lit one handbreadth
  2. Ezekiel 40:43 Or ledges
  3. Ezekiel 40:44 LXX reads were two chambers
  4. Ezekiel 40:44 LXX; MT reads singers, which was
  5. Ezekiel 40:44 LXX; MT reads east

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