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 Living Translation
Rooms for the Priests
42 Then the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard. 2 This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet[a] long and 87 1⁄2 feet[b] wide. 3 One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot[c] width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other. 4 Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1⁄2 feet[d] wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex,[e] and all the doors faced north. 5 Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them. 6 Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it. 7 There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1⁄2 feet long. 8 This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1⁄2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet. 9 There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms.
10 On the south[f] side of the Temple there were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between the Temple and the outer courtyard. These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north. 11 There was a walkway between the two blocks of rooms just like the complex on the north side of the Temple. This complex of rooms was the same length and width as the other one, and it had the same entrances and doors. The dimensions of each were identical. 12 So there was an entrance in the wall facing the doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east at the end of the interior walkway.
13 Then the man told me, “These rooms that overlook the Temple from the north and south are holy. Here the priests who offer sacrifices to the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. And because these rooms are holy, they will be used to store the sacred offerings—the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. 14 When the priests leave the sanctuary, they must not go directly to the outer courtyard. They must first take off the clothes they wore while ministering, because these clothes are holy. They must put on other clothes before entering the parts of the building complex open to the public.”
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- 42:2a Hebrew 100 cubits [53 meters]; also in 42:8.
- 42:2b Hebrew 50 cubits [26.5 meters]; also in 42:7, 8.
- 42:3 Hebrew 20[-cubit] [10.6-meter].
- 42:4a Hebrew 10 cubits [5.3 meters].
- 42:4b As in Greek and Syriac versions, which read Its length was 100 cubits [53 meters]; Hebrew reads and a passage 1 cubit [21 inches or 53 centimeters] wide.
- 42:10 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads east.
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