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Then he measured the wall of the Temple, and it was 10 1⁄2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet[a] wide. These side rooms were built in three levels, one above the other, with thirty rooms on each level. The supports for these side rooms rested on exterior ledges on the Temple wall; they did not extend into the wall. Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level.

I saw that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1⁄2 feet[b] high. The outer wall of the Temple’s side rooms was 8 3⁄4 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms 10 and the row of rooms along the outer wall of the inner courtyard. This open area was 35 feet wide, and it went all the way around the Temple. 11 Two doors opened from the side rooms into the terrace yard, which was 8 3⁄4 feet wide. One door faced north and the other south.

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  1. 41:5 Hebrew 4 cubits [2.1 meters].
  2. 41:8 Hebrew 1 rod, 6 cubits [3.2 meters].

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. 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. 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.

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. 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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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
  2. Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  3. Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “4 cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters).
  4. 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.
  5. Ezekiel 41:7 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
  6. Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “reed.”
  7. Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  8. Ezekiel 41:9 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
  9. Ezekiel 41:10 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
  10. Ezekiel 41:11 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).