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Ezekiel 40:5-16
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5 I saw[a] a wall all around the outside of the temple.[b] In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet[c] long. He measured the thickness of the wall[d] as 10½ feet,[e] and its height as 10½ feet. 6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.[f] 7 The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet.[g] The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet. 8 Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet. 9 He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet,[h] and its jambs as 3½ feet;[i] the porch of the gate faced inward. 10 There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.[j] 11 He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet,[k] and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.[l] 12 There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet[m] on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet[n] on either side. 13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet[o] from one entrance to the opposite one. 14 He measured[p] the porch[q] at 105 feet[r] high;[s] the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard. 15 From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.[t] 16 There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees.[u]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
  2. Ezekiel 40:5 tn Heb “house.”
  3. Ezekiel 40:5 tn Heb “a measuring stick of 6 cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.
  4. Ezekiel 40:5 tn Heb “building.”
  5. Ezekiel 40:5 tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).
  6. Ezekiel 40:6 tn The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.
  7. Ezekiel 40:7 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters) according to the “long” cubit. See the note on the first occurrence of the phrase “10½ feet” in v. 5.
  8. Ezekiel 40:9 tn Heb “8 cubits” (i.e., 4.2 meters).
  9. Ezekiel 40:9 tn Heb “2 cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
  10. Ezekiel 40:10 sn The three alcoves are parallel to the city gates found at Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer.
  11. Ezekiel 40:11 tn Heb “10 cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
  12. Ezekiel 40:11 tn Heb “13 cubits” (i.e., 6.825 meters).
  13. Ezekiel 40:12 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
  14. Ezekiel 40:12 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  15. Ezekiel 40:13 tn Heb “25 cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
  16. Ezekiel 40:14 tn Heb “made.”
  17. Ezekiel 40:14 tc The MT reads “jambs,” which does not make sense in context. Supposing a confusion of י (yod) for ו (vav), the text may be emended to read “porch.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:518.
  18. Ezekiel 40:14 tn Heb “60 cubits” (i.e., 31.5 meters).
  19. Ezekiel 40:14 tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for sense.
  20. Ezekiel 40:15 tn Heb “50 cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
  21. Ezekiel 40:16 sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).
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Ezekiel 40:5-16
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The East Gate to the Outer Court

5 And behold, there was (A)a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, (B)each being a cubit and a handbreadth[a] in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 Then he went into (C)the gateway facing east, (D)going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.[b] 7 And (E)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. 8 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed. 9 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; (F)and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. 10 And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. (G)The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size. 11 Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits. 12 There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side. 13 Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other. 14 He measured also (H)the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.[c] 15 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. 16 And the gateway had (I)windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their (J)jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were (K)palm trees.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters; a handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters
  2. Ezekiel 40:6 Hebrew deep, and one threshold, one reed deep
  3. Ezekiel 40:14 Text uncertain; Hebrew And he made the jambs sixty cubits, and to the jamb of the court was the gateway all around
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