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Ezekiel 40:46-48
Evangelical Heritage Version
Ezekiel 40:46-48
Evangelical Heritage Version
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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- Ezekiel 40:47 Feature H on the diagram
- Ezekiel 40:47 About 175 feet by 175 feet
- 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.
- Ezekiel 40:48 About 9 feet
- Ezekiel 40:48 About 25 feet
- Ezekiel 40:48 About 5 feet
- 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.
Ezekiel 40:46-48
New International Version
Ezekiel 40:46-48
New International Version
46 and the room facing north(A) is for the priests who guard the altar.(B) These are the sons of Zadok,(C) who are the only Levites who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.(D)”
47 Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.(E)
The New Temple
48 He brought me to the portico of the temple(F) and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side. The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits[a] and its projecting walls were[b] three cubits[c] wide on either side.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 40:48 That is, about 25 feet or about 7.4 meters
- Ezekiel 40:48 Septuagint; Hebrew entrance was
- Ezekiel 40:48 That is, about 5 1/4 feet or about 1.6 meters
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