Ezekiel 41:5-11
New American Standard Bible
5 Then he measured the wall of the [a]temple, six cubits; and the width of the (A)side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side. 6 (B)The side chambers were in three stories, [b]one above another, and [c]thirty in each story; and [d]the side chambers (C)extended to the wall which stood on [e]their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself. 7 And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the (D)structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the [f]second story. 8 I saw also that the house had a raised [g]platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full [h]rod of (E)six [i]long cubits in height. 9 The [j]thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the (F)free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple 10 and the outer (G)chambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side. 11 The [k]doorways of the side [l]chambers toward the (H)free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the (I)free space was five cubits all around.
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- Ezekiel 41:5 Lit house, and so throughout the ch
- Ezekiel 41:6 Lit chamber upon chamber
- Ezekiel 41:6 Lit thirty times
- Ezekiel 41:6 Lit they were coming
- Ezekiel 41:6 Lit the inside of the side chambers
- Ezekiel 41:7 Lit middle
- Ezekiel 41:8 Lit height
- Ezekiel 41:8 Lit reed
- Ezekiel 41:8 Or to the joint
- Ezekiel 41:9 Lit width
- Ezekiel 41:11 Lit doorway
- Ezekiel 41:11 Lit chamber
Ezekiel 41:5-11
New English Translation
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple[a] as 10½ feet[b] and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet,[c] all around the temple. 6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple. 7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story,[d] for the structure surrounding[e] the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick[f] of 10½ feet[g] high. 9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet,[h] and the open area between the side chambers of the temple 10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet[i] in width all around the temple on every side. 11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet[j] all around.
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- Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
- Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “4 cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:7 tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.
- Ezekiel 41:7 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
- Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “reed.”
- Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:9 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:10 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:11 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
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