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46 and the room that faces north is for the priests who guard the altar. They are descendants of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

The Inner Courtyard

47 Then he measured the courtyard.[a] It was one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide[b]—a square. The altar was in front of the temple.

The Temple Building
The Vestibule

48 Next he brought me to the vestibule of the temple building.[c] He measured each doorpost of the vestibule: five cubits[d] on either side. The width of the gate was ⎣fourteen cubits.[e] The sides of the gate were⎦ three cubits[f] on either side.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:47 Feature H on the diagram
  2. Ezekiel 40:47 About 175 feet by 175 feet
  3. Ezekiel 40:48 Feature K on the diagram. The Hebrew text consistently calls the temple ha-bayit, the House. To avoid confusion, in this account the EHV regularly translates this term temple, rather than house, and it distinguishes the temple building from the temple complex or temple compound when necessary.
  4. Ezekiel 40:48 About 9 feet
  5. Ezekiel 40:48 About 25 feet
  6. Ezekiel 40:48 About 5 feet
  7. Ezekiel 40:48 The words in half-brackets are present in the Greek text but not in the Hebrew text. An omission from the Hebrew text may have occurred as the Hebrew scribe’s eye skipped from one occurrence of gate to another.