Ezekiel 41:1-4
New English Translation
The Inner Temple
41 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet[a] wide on each side. 2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,[b] and the sides[c] of the entrance were 8¾ feet[d] on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet[e] and its width as 35 feet.[f]
3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet,[g] the entrance as 10½ feet,[h] and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.[i] 4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet[j] and its width as 35 feet,[k] before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
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- Ezekiel 41:1 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “10 cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:2 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was 3 cubits,” the omission due to haplography.tn Or “sidewalls.”
- Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “40 cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:3 tn Heb “2 cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:3 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:3 tn Heb “7 cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:4 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:4 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
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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