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).
Ezekiel 41:5-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. 6 The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.(A) 7 The passageway[b] of the side chambers widened from story to story, for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one.(B) 8 I saw also that the temple was on a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits high.(C) 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and the free space between the side chambers of the temple(D) 10 and the chambers of the court was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.(E) 11 The side chambers opened onto the area left free, one door toward the north and another door toward the south, and the width of the part that was left free was five cubits all around.(F)
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