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The Eastern Gate

And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it,[a] and in the hand of the man the reed[b] for measurement was six long cubits, according to[c] the cubit[d] and a handbreadth,[e] and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed,[f] and the height as one reed.[g] And then he went toward[h] the gate whose face was to the east.[i] And he went up by[j] its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed[k] wide. And the alcove[l] was one reed[m] long and one reed[n] wide,[o] and between the alcoves was five cubits,[p] and the threshold of the gate along the side of the portico of the gate on the inside[q] was one reed.[r] And then he measured the portico of the gate on the inside[s] as one reed.[t] And he measured the portico of the gate as eight cubits,[u] and its pilaster was two cubits[v] thick, and he measured the portico of the gate on the inside.[w] 10 And the alcoves[x] of the gate toward the way[y] eastward[z] were three on each side;[aa] the same measurements applied to all three of them;[ab] and the same measurement applied to the pilaster[ac] on each side.[ad] 11 And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubits[ae] and the length of the gateway[af] was thirteen cubits.[ag] 12 And a wall[ah] was before[ai] the alcoves; one cubit[aj] on either side[ak] was the wall from here.[al] And the alcove was six cubits[am] on each side.[an] 13 And he measured the gate from the top slab of the alcove to its opposite top slab as twenty-five cubits in width, from one entrance to the other one opposite it.[ao] 14 And he made the pilasters sixty cubits,[ap] and to the pilaster of the courtyard all the way around the gate.[aq] 15 And from the front of[ar] the gate at the entrance to the front of[as] the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits.[at] 16 And there were narrow windows for the alcoves and for their pilasters to the inside of the gate all the way around[au] it. And likewise with respect to the porticos and windows were all the way around[av] to the inside, and on a pilaster there were images of palm trees.[aw]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “all around, all around”
  2. Ezekiel 40:5 Or “rod”
  3. Ezekiel 40:5 Literally “with/in”
  4. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 18 inches
  5. Ezekiel 40:5 A handbreadth wasabout 3 inches; the reed/rod was 10.5 feet long
  6. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, 10.5 feet
  7. Ezekiel 40:5 That is, about 10.5 feet
  8. Ezekiel 40:6 Or “to”
  9. Ezekiel 40:6 Literally “to the way toward the east”
  10. Ezekiel 40:6 Or “with”
  11. Ezekiel 40:6 That is, about 10.5 feet
  12. Ezekiel 40:7 Or “niches” in the temple tower
  13. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 10.5 feet
  14. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 10.5 feet
  15. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, 10.5 x 10.5 feet
  16. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8.75 feet
  17. Ezekiel 40:7 Literally “from the house”
  18. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 10.5 feet
  19. Ezekiel 40:8 Literally “from the house”
  20. Ezekiel 40:8 That is, about 10.5 feet.
  21. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, about 14 feet
  22. Ezekiel 40:9 That is, 3.5 feet
  23. Ezekiel 40:9 Literally “from the house”
  24. Ezekiel 40:10 Hebrew “alcove”
  25. Ezekiel 40:10 Or “direction”
  26. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “of the east”
  27. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “was three from here and three from here”
  28. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “measurement one was to the three of them”
  29. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “measurement one was to the pilaster”
  30. Ezekiel 40:10 Literally “from here and from there”
  31. Ezekiel 40:11 That is, 17.5 feet
  32. Ezekiel 40:11 Hebrew “gate”
  33. Ezekiel 40:11 That is, 22.75 feet; or the inside width of the gateway was 22.75 feet
  34. Ezekiel 40:12 Or “guard wall”; others prefer “curb” (NLT)
  35. Ezekiel 40:12 Literally “was to the face of”
  36. Ezekiel 40:12 That is, about 18 inches
  37. Ezekiel 40:12 Literally “cubit one and cubit one”; or 21 inches
  38. Ezekiel 40:12 Or “from the front”
  39. Ezekiel 40:12 That is, 10.5 feet
  40. Ezekiel 40:12 Literally “was six cubits from here and six cubits from here”
  41. Ezekiel 40:13 Literally “doorway opposite doorway”
  42. Ezekiel 40:14 That is, 105 feet (problematic in this context)
  43. Ezekiel 40:14 Literally “the gate all around, all around”
  44. Ezekiel 40:15 Literally “and at the face of”
  45. Ezekiel 40:15 Literally “the face of”
  46. Ezekiel 40:15 That is, 87.5 feet
  47. Ezekiel 40:16 Literally “all around, all around”
  48. Ezekiel 40:16 Literally “all around, all around”
  49. Ezekiel 40:16 Hebrew “tree”