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The Outer Courtyard

17 Then the man brought me through the gateway into the outer courtyard of the Temple. A stone pavement ran along the walls of the courtyard, and thirty rooms were built against the walls, opening onto the pavement. 18 This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement. 19 Then the man measured across the Temple’s outer courtyard between the outer and inner gateways; the distance was 175 feet.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 40:19 Hebrew 100 cubits [53 meters]; also in 40:23, 27, 47.

17 And so we passed through the passageway to the court inside. A stone pavement ran around the inside of the walls, and thirty rooms were built against the walls, opening onto this pavement. 18 This was called “the lower pavement.” It extended out from the walls into the court the same distance as the passageway did.

19 Then he measured across to the wall on the other side of this court (which was called “the outer court” of the Temple)[a] and found that the distance was 175 feet.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:19 (which was called “the outer court” of the Temple), implied.