Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options
Close NET

Ezekiel 40:5-16
New English Translation

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]

Read full chapter

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).
Close WEB

Ezekiel 40:5-16
World English Bible

5 Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits[a] long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

6 Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide. 7 Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side. 11 He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; 12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door. 14 He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate. 15 From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. 16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 40:5 A normal cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. A handbreadth is about 4.3 inches or 11 centimeters, so the long cubit described here would be about 22.3 inches or 57 centimeters long. Thus, a 6 long cubit measuring reed would have been about 3 yards 26.6 inches or about 3.42 meters long.
Next
Ezekiel 39
Ezekiel 41
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.

World English Bible (WEB)

by Public Domain. The name "World English Bible" is trademarked.