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Ezekiel 42:1-14
Lexham English Bible
Ezekiel 42:1-14
Lexham English Bible
Description of Rooms for the Priests
42 And he brought me out to the outer courtyard to the north,[a] and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and which is opposite the building to the north. 2 As to[b] the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits,[c] and its[d] width was fifty cubits.[e] 3 Opposite the twenty cubits of the inner courtyard,[f] and opposite the pavement that was to the outer courtyard was a gallery facing[g] a gallery in the three stories. 4 And in front of[h] the chambers was a passageway ten cubits[i] in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit,[j] and their doorways were to the north. 5 And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building. 6 For they[k] were three stories and they had no pillars[l] like[m] the pillars of[n] the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up. 7 And there was a wall that was to the outside alongside[o] the chambers on the walkway to[p] the outer courtyard[q] in front of[r] the chambers; its length was fifty[s] cubits.[t] 8 For[u] the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty[v] cubits,[w] and look![x] The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred[y] cubits.[z] 9 And from under these chambers was the entrance[aa] from the east for them when one enters[ab] from the outer courtyard.
10 All along the width of the wall of the courtyard eastward[ac] in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers. 11 And a walkway was before them[ad] like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north,[ae] just like them in their length, and so was their width and all their exits, and they were built like their arrangements and like their doorways, 12 and like the doorways of the chambers which were on the way of the south was a doorway at the head of the way[af] before the stone wall, projecting[ag] on[ah] the way of the east at their coming.[ai]
13 And he said to me, “The chambers of the north and the chambers of the south which are before[aj] the courtyard, they are the holy chambers[ak] in which the priests, who are near to Yahweh, will eat the most holy objects.[al] There they shall put the most holy objects,[am] and the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter,[an] then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must put[ao] their garments in which they serve because they are holy. They must put on other garments and then they may approach the area that is for the people.
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- Ezekiel 42:1 Literally “to the way of the north”
- Ezekiel 42:2 Or “along the face of”
- Ezekiel 42:2 That is, 175 feet
- Ezekiel 42:2 Or “the”
- Ezekiel 42:2 That is, 87.5 feet
- Ezekiel 42:3 Literally “which were to the courtyard the inner”
- Ezekiel 42:3 Literally “toward in the face/front of”
- Ezekiel 42:4 Literally “to the face of”
- Ezekiel 42:4 That is, 17.5 feet
- Ezekiel 42:4 One cubit of 18–21 inches is problematic; LXX and Syriac read 100 cubits (175 feet) running the length of the building
- Ezekiel 42:6 Or “there”
- Ezekiel 42:6 Literally “there were not for them pillars”
- Ezekiel 42:6 Or “as”
- Ezekiel 42:6 Or “for”
- Ezekiel 42:7 Literally “to the outside to corresponding”
- Ezekiel 42:7 Or “of”
- Ezekiel 42:7 That is, “to the north”
- Ezekiel 42:7 Literally “to in face of”
- Ezekiel 42:7 That is, 87.5 feet
- Ezekiel 42:7 Hebrew “cubit”
- Ezekiel 42:8 Or “while”
- Ezekiel 42:8 Hebrew “cubit”
- Ezekiel 42:8 That is, 87.5 feet
- Ezekiel 42:8 Or “yet!”
- Ezekiel 42:8 Hebrew “cubit”
- Ezekiel 42:8 That is, 175 feet
- Ezekiel 42:9 Reading the Ketiv
- Ezekiel 42:9 Literally “at/in his/its coming”
- Ezekiel 42:10 Literally “on the way of the east”
- Ezekiel 42:11 Literally “was to the face of them”
- Ezekiel 42:11 Literally “were on the way of the north”
- Ezekiel 42:12 Dropping one “way”
- Ezekiel 42:12 Or “protecting wall”
- Ezekiel 42:12 Or “toward”
- Ezekiel 42:12 That is, when people entered the complex
- Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “to the front of”
- Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “are the chambers of the holiness”
- Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “holy objects of the holy objects”
- Ezekiel 42:13 Literally “holy objects of the holy objects”
- Ezekiel 42:14 Literally “at coming their”
- Ezekiel 42:14 Or “deposit/leave/remove”
Ezekiel 42:1-14
New International Version
Ezekiel 42:1-14
New International Version
The Rooms for the Priests
42 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms(A) opposite the temple courtyard(B) and opposite the outer wall on the north side.(C) 2 The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.[a] 3 Both in the section twenty cubits[b] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery(D) faced gallery at the three levels.(E) 4 In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits[c] long.[d] Their doors were on the north.(F) 5 Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building. 6 The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. 7 There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. 8 While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long. 9 The lower rooms had an entrance(G) on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.
10 On the south side[e] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard(H) and opposite the outer wall, were rooms(I) 11 with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north 12 were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.
13 Then he said to me, “The north(J) and south rooms(K) facing the temple courtyard(L) are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings,(M) the sin offerings[f](N) and the guilt offerings(O)—for the place is holy.(P) 14 Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments(Q) in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.(R)”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 42:2 That is, about 175 feet long and 88 feet wide or about 53 meters long and 27 meters wide
- Ezekiel 42:3 That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters
- Ezekiel 42:4 Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew and one cubit
- Ezekiel 42:4 That is, about 18 feet wide and 175 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 53 meters long
- Ezekiel 42:10 Septuagint; Hebrew Eastward
- Ezekiel 42:13 Or purification offerings
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