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Sanctuary and Temple

41 And he brought me to the temple sanctuary,[a] and he measured the pilasters, six cubits[b] wide on each side;[c] this was the width of the tent.[d] And the width of the doorway was ten cubits,[e] and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side,[f] and he measured its[g] length as forty cubits,[h] and its width was twenty cubits.[i] And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubits[j] and the doorway as six cubits[k] and the width of the doorway seven cubits.[l] And he measured its length as twenty cubits[m] and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, “This is the most holy place.[n]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:1 Or “main room” (of the temple of Jerusalem); “great hall” (JPS); “outer sanctuary” (NIV); word can refer to surrounding courts and halls; HALOT 245.
  2. Ezekiel 41:1 That is, 10.5 feet
  3. Ezekiel 41:1 Literally “six cubits wide from here and six cubits wide from here”
  4. Ezekiel 41:1 Or “of the jambs”
  5. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, 17.5 feet
  6. Ezekiel 41:2 Literally “was five cubits from here and five cubits from here”; five cubits = 8.75 feet
  7. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, the outer sanctuary
  8. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, 70 feet
  9. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, 35 feet
  10. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, 3.5 feet
  11. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, 10.5 feet
  12. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, 12.25 feet
  13. Ezekiel 41:4 That is, 35 feet
  14. Ezekiel 41:4 Literally “the holy of the holies”

41 He brought me to the main hall, and he measured the arches. They were nine feet deep on both sides, so that was also the depth of the tent. The entrance was fifteen feet wide, and the facades on either side of the entrance were seven and a half feet. When he measured its length, it was sixty feet, and its width was thirty feet. Then he went into the inner room, and he measured the arches on both sides of the entrance; they were each three feet. The entrance was nine feet wide, and its depth was ten and a half feet. When he measured the length of the inner room, it was thirty feet, and the width of the side adjoining the main hall was also thirty feet. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

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