Ezekiel 41:5-11
New English Translation
5 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. 6 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. 7 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.
8 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. 9 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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- Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
- Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “4 cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters).
- 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.
- Ezekiel 41:7 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
- Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “reed.”
- Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:9 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:10 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
- Ezekiel 41:11 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
Ezekiel 41:5-11
American Standard Version
5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6 And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold therein, and not have hold in the wall of the house. 7 And [a]the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber. 8 I saw also [b]that the house had [c]a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed [d]of six great cubits. 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house. 10 And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
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- Ezekiel 41:7 Or, there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side-chambers; for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house
- Ezekiel 41:8 Or, that the house was high round about
- Ezekiel 41:8 Hebrew height.
- Ezekiel 41:8 Or, of six cubits to the joining
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