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Ezekiel 40:5-16
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The Wall and Outer Gates
The Wall

5 I saw a wall[a] all the way around the temple compound. In the man’s hand was the measuring rod, six cubits long (using the long cubit).[b] When he measured the thickness of the structure, it was one rod thick, and its height was one rod.

The East Gatehouse

6 Then he approached the gatehouse[c] that was on the east side of the temple compound and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate. It was one rod deep.[d] 7 Each guardroom[e] was one rod wide and one rod deep. Between the guardrooms, the walls were five cubits thick,[f] and the threshold of the gate of the vestibule[g] on the inner side of the gatehouse was one rod deep. 8 ⎣He measured the vestibule on the inner side of the gatehouse. It was one rod.⎦[h]

9 He measured the vestibule of the gatehouse, which was eight cubits,[i] and its gateposts were two cubits. The vestibule of the gatehouse was located at the inner end of the gateway. 10 Inside the east gatehouse, there were three guardrooms on either side of the entry. All three were the same size, and the gateposts on either side were also the same size. 11 Then he measured the width of the entry into the gateway. It was ten cubits, and the length of the gateway was thirteen cubits.[j] 12 There was a barrier in front of the guardrooms, one cubit wide, on both sides of the passage. Each guardroom was six cubits square.[k]

13 Next he measured the passageway through the gatehouse, from the outside edge of the ceiling of one guardroom to the outside edge of the ceiling opposite it. The total width was twenty-five cubits.[l] The doorways to the guardrooms were facing each other on each side of the passageway. 14 He determined that the measurement of the gateposts was sixty cubits,[m] and the courtyard all around the gateway reached to the gateposts.[n] 15 From the front of the outer entrance of the gateway to the outside edge of the vestibule on the inner side of the gateway was fifty cubits.[o] 16 The guardrooms and their doorposts had openings on all sides. The openings were slits that were narrower toward the inside of the gate, and likewise, the vestibule had openings that narrowed toward the inside all the way around.[p] The doorposts had decorations like palm trees.

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Notas al pie

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 Feature A on the diagram of the temple
  2. Ezekiel 40:5 A long cubit is about 21 inches long instead of the standard 18 inches. A long cubit consists of the regular cubit (18 inches) plus a handbreadth (3 inches). The measuring rod is therefore about 10½ feet long. Because some of the numbers in the descriptions of the land and the temple have symbolic value, the translation (contrary to our normal practice) will retain the measurements in cubits. Footnotes converting some of the measurements to feet will help readers visualize the size of the temple and its objects. All conversions are rounded off.
  3. Ezekiel 40:6 The “gates” (Hebrew sha’ar) in the temple compound are not simply doored entryways. They are complex structures. The EHV generally uses gatehouse as the name for the structure and gateway for the passageway through the gatehouse, but it is not always possible to identify such distinctions with certainty. This gatehouse is structure B on the diagram.
  4. Ezekiel 40:6 The Hebrew reads measured the threshold of the gate, one rod deep, ⎣and one threshold, one rod deep.⎦ The words marked here by half-brackets are not included in the Greek text, and they do not appear in the translation above.
  5. Ezekiel 40:7 Or alcove
  6. Ezekiel 40:7 Almost 9 feet
  7. Ezekiel 40:7 Or porch or portico or antechamber. The presence of slits in the walls of the “porches” indicates that they were enclosed rooms.
  8. Ezekiel 40:8 Some manuscripts and versions omit the words marked by half-brackets in verse 8. These words seem to disagree with the measurement of the vestibule given in verse 9. There may have been some accidental duplication in the Hebrew text, but the two statements may be giving measurements of different parts of the vestibule and gatehouse. If the words in half-brackets, which are not included in the Greek text, are omitted, the text still reads smoothly.
  9. Ezekiel 40:9 About 14 feet
  10. Ezekiel 40:11 The passageway through the gatehouse was thus about 18 feet wide and 23 feet long.
  11. Ezekiel 40:12 About 10 feet
  12. Ezekiel 40:13 About 44 feet. The verse is difficult. It appears that this measurement is the total width of the gatehouse, including the passageway and the guardrooms on each side of it.
  13. Ezekiel 40:14 More than 100 feet
  14. Ezekiel 40:14 The meaning of this verse is uncertain, and translations vary widely. Some believe the measurement is the height of the gatehouse, but the measurement seems too large for that. Some translations therefore change the number from sixty to twenty cubits. Others believe the measurement is the perimeter of the gatehouse, but the measurement seems too small for that. In light of the uncertainty, the EHV retains a fairly literal translation, which does not alter the text.
  15. Ezekiel 40:15 About 90 feet
  16. Ezekiel 40:16 These were slots through which the defenders could shoot. They also let light into the gatehouse.
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Ezekiel 40:5-16
Lexham English Bible

The Eastern Gate

5 And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it,[a] and in the hand of the man the reed[b] for measurement was six long cubits, according to[c] the cubit[d] and a handbreadth,[e] and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,[f] and the height as one reed.[g] 6 And then he went toward[h] the gate whose face was to the east.[i] And he went up by[j] its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed[k] wide. 7 And the alcove[l] was one reed[m] long and one reed[n] wide,[o] and between the alcoves was five cubits,[p] and the threshold of the gate along the side of the portico of the gate on the inside[q] was one reed.[r] 8 And then he measured the portico of the gate on the inside[s] as one reed.[t] 9 And he measured the portico of the gate as eight cubits,[u] and its pilaster was two cubits[v] thick, and he measured the portico of the gate on the inside.[w] 10 And the alcoves[x] of the gate toward the way[y] eastward[z] were three on each side;[aa] the same measurements applied to all three of them;[ab] and the same measurement applied to the pilaster[ac] on each side.[ad] 11 And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubits[ae] and the length of the gateway[af] was thirteen cubits.[ag] 12 And a wall[ah] was before[ai] the alcoves; one cubit[aj] on either side[ak] was the wall from here.[al] And the alcove was six cubits[am] on each side.[an] 13 And he measured the gate from the top slab of the alcove to its opposite top slab as twenty-five cubits in width, from one entrance to the other one opposite it.[ao] 14 And he made the pilasters sixty cubits,[ap] and to the pilaster of the courtyard all the way around the gate.[aq] 15 And from the front of[ar] the gate at the entrance to the front of[as] the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits.[at] 16 And there were narrow windows for the alcoves and for their pilasters to the inside of the gate all the way around[au] it. And likewise with respect to the porticos and windows were all the way around[av] to the inside, and on a pilaster there were images of palm trees.[aw]

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Notas al pie

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “all around, all around”
  2. Ezekiel 40:5 Or “rod”
  3. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “with/in”
  4. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 18 inches
  5. Ezekiel 40:5 A handbreadth wasabout 3 inches; the reed/rod was 10.5 feet long
  6. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, 10.5 feet
  7. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 10.5 feet
  8. Ezekiel 40:6 Or “to”
  9. Ezekiel 40:6 Literally “to the way toward the east”
  10. Ezekiel 40:6 Or “with”
  11. Ezekiel 40:6 That is, about 10.5 feet
  12. Ezekiel 40:7 Or “niches” in the temple tower
  13. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 10.5 feet
  14. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 10.5 feet
  15. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, 10.5 x 10.5 feet
  16. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8.75 feet
  17. Ezekiel 40:7 Literally “from the house”
  18. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 10.5 feet
  19. Ezekiel 40:8 Literally “from the house”
  20. Ezekiel 40:8 That is, about 10.5 feet.
  21. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 14 feet
  22. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, 3.5 feet
  23. Ezekiel 40:9 Literally “from the house”
  24. Ezekiel 40:10 Hebrew “alcove”
  25. Ezekiel 40:10 Or “direction”
  26. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “of the east”
  27. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “was three from here and three from here”
  28. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “measurement one was to the three of them”
  29. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “measurement one was to the pilaster”
  30. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “from here and from there”
  31. Ezekiel 40:11 That is, 17.5 feet
  32. Ezekiel 40:11 Hebrew “gate”
  33. Ezekiel 40:11 That is, 22.75 feet; or the inside width of the gateway was 22.75 feet
  34. Ezekiel 40:12 Or “guard wall”; others prefer “curb” (NLT)
  35. Ezekiel 40:12 Literally “was to the face of”
  36. Ezekiel 40:12 That is, about 18 inches
  37. Ezekiel 40:12 Literally “cubit one and cubit one”; or 21 inches
  38. Ezekiel 40:12 Or “from the front”
  39. Ezekiel 40:12 That is, 10.5 feet
  40. Ezekiel 40:12 Literally “was six cubits from here and six cubits from here”
  41. Ezekiel 40:13 Literally “doorway opposite doorway”
  42. Ezekiel 40:14 That is, 105 feet (problematic in this context)
  43. Ezekiel 40:14 Literally “the gate all around, all around”
  44. Ezekiel 40:15 Literally “and at the face of”
  45. Ezekiel 40:15 Literally “the face of”
  46. Ezekiel 40:15 That is, 87.5 feet
  47. Ezekiel 40:16 Literally “all around, all around”
  48. Ezekiel 40:16 Literally “all around, all around”
  49. Ezekiel 40:16 Hebrew “tree”
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