Ezekiel 41:1-4
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41 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the posts; on each side six cubits was the depth of the posts.[a](A) 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. He measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.(B) 3 Then he went into the inner room and measured the posts of the entrance, two cubits, and the width of the entrance, six cubits, and the sidewalls[b] of the entrance, seven cubits.(C) 4 He measured the depth of the room, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”(D)
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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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