Ezekiel 41:1-4
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Inside the Temple
41 Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the pilasters;(A) on each side the width of the pilaster was 10½ feet.[a][b] 2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,[c] and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet[d] wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet,[e] and the width, 35 feet.[f](B) 3 He went inside the next room and measured the pilasters at the entrance;(C) they were 3½ feet[g] wide. The entrance was 10½ feet[h] wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side[i] was 12¼ feet.[j] 4 He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet,[k] and the width, 35 feet.(D) And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”(E)
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- Ezekiel 41:1 LXX; MT reads pilasters; they were 10½ feet wide on each side—the width of the tabernacle
- Ezekiel 41:1 Lit six cubits
- Ezekiel 41:2 Lit 10 cubits
- Ezekiel 41:2 Lit five cubits
- Ezekiel 41:2 Lit 40 cubits
- Ezekiel 41:2 Lit 20 cubits
- Ezekiel 41:3 Lit two cubits
- Ezekiel 41:3 Lit six cubits
- Ezekiel 41:3 LXX; MT reads width of the entrance
- Ezekiel 41:3 Lit seven cubits
- Ezekiel 41:4 Lit 20 cubits
Ezekiel 41:1-4
Lexham English Bible
Sanctuary and Temple
41 And he brought me to the temple sanctuary,[a] and he measured the pilasters, six cubits[b] wide on each side;[c] this was the width of the tent.[d] 2 And the width of the doorway was ten cubits,[e] and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side,[f] and he measured its[g] length as forty cubits,[h] and its width was twenty cubits.[i] 3 And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubits[j] and the doorway as six cubits[k] and the width of the doorway seven cubits.[l] 4 And he measured its length as twenty cubits[m] and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, “This is the most holy place.[n]
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- Ezekiel 41:1 Or “main room” (of the temple of Jerusalem); “great hall” (JPS); “outer sanctuary” (NIV); word can refer to surrounding courts and halls; HALOT 245.
- Ezekiel 41:1 That is, 10.5 feet
- Ezekiel 41:1 Literally “six cubits wide from here and six cubits wide from here”
- Ezekiel 41:1 Or “of the jambs”
- Ezekiel 41:2 That is, 17.5 feet
- Ezekiel 41:2 Literally “was five cubits from here and five cubits from here”; five cubits = 8.75 feet
- Ezekiel 41:2 That is, the outer sanctuary
- Ezekiel 41:2 That is, 70 feet
- Ezekiel 41:2 That is, 35 feet
- Ezekiel 41:3 That is, 3.5 feet
- Ezekiel 41:3 That is, 10.5 feet
- Ezekiel 41:3 That is, 12.25 feet
- Ezekiel 41:4 That is, 35 feet
- Ezekiel 41:4 Literally “the holy of the holies”
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