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The Inner Temple

41 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet[a] wide on each side. The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,[b] and the sides[c] of the entrance were 8¾ feet[d] on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet[e] and its width as 35 feet.[f]

Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet,[g] the entrance as 10½ feet,[h] and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.[i] Then he measured its length as 35 feet[j] and its width as 35 feet,[k] before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:1 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  2. Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “10 cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
  3. Ezekiel 41:2 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was 3 cubits,” the omission due to haplography.tn Or “sidewalls.”
  4. Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
  5. Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “40 cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
  6. Ezekiel 41:2 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
  7. Ezekiel 41:3 tn Heb “2 cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
  8. Ezekiel 41:3 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  9. Ezekiel 41:3 tn Heb “7 cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
  10. Ezekiel 41:4 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
  11. Ezekiel 41:4 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

The Holy Place of the Temple

41 The man brought me to the ·Holy Place [outer sanctuary; main hall] and measured its ·side walls [or jambs], which were each ·ten and one-half feet [L six cubits] thick. The entrance was ·seventeen and one-half feet [L ten cubits] wide. The walls alongside the entrance were each ·about nine feet wide [L five cubits]. The man measured the ·Holy Place [outer sanctuary; main hall], which was ·seventy feet [L forty cubits] long and ·thirty-five feet [L twenty cubits] wide.

Then the man went ·inside [into the inner sanctuary] and measured the ·side walls [or jambs] of the next doorway. Each was ·three and one-half feet [L two cubits] thick. The doorway was ·ten and one-half feet [L six cubits] wide, and the walls next to it were each more than ·twelve [L seven cubits] feet thick. Then the man measured the room ·at the end of [or adjacent to] the ·Holy Place [outer sanctuary; main hall]. It was ·thirty-five feet [L twenty cubits] long and ·thirty-five feet [L twenty cubits] long wide. The man said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

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