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The rooms were ten and a half feet long and ten and a half feet wide, with a space of seven and a half feet between them. The plaza next to the porch at the gate opposite the temple was ten and a half feet. He measured the porch of the gate opposite the temple: it was ten and a half feet. Then he measured the porch of the gate: it was twelve feet,[a] and its arches were three feet. The porch of the gate was opposite the temple.

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  1. Ezekiel 40:9 Or eight cubits

And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

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The alcoves(A) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[a] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

Then he measured the portico of the gateway; it[b] was eight cubits[c] deep and its jambs were two cubits[d] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verse 48
  2. Ezekiel 40:9 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts gateway facing the temple; it was one rod deep. Then he measured the portico of the gateway; it
  3. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 14 feet or about 4.2 meters
  4. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 3 1/2 feet or about 1 meter

And (A)the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed. Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed. Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; (B)and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

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