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Ezekiel 41:1-14
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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. 2 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]

3 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] 4 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.”

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple[l] as 10½ feet[m] and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet,[n] 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,[o] for the structure surrounding[p] 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[q] of 10½ feet[r] high. 9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet,[s] and the open area between the side chambers of the temple 10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet[t] 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[u] all around.

12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet[v] wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet[w] thick all around, and its length 157½ feet.[x]

13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet[y] long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet[z] long, 14 and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet.[aa]

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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).
  12. Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
  13. Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  14. Ezekiel 41:5 tn Heb “4 cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters).
  15. 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.
  16. Ezekiel 41:7 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
  17. Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “reed.”
  18. Ezekiel 41:8 tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
  19. Ezekiel 41:9 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
  20. Ezekiel 41:10 tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
  21. Ezekiel 41:11 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
  22. Ezekiel 41:12 tn Heb “70 cubits” (36.75 meters).
  23. Ezekiel 41:12 tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
  24. Ezekiel 41:12 tn Heb “90 cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).
  25. Ezekiel 41:13 tn Heb “100 cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
  26. Ezekiel 41:13 tn Heb “100 cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
  27. Ezekiel 41:14 tn Heb “100 cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
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Ezekiel 41:1-14
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41 Then the man brought me to the main hall(A) and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits[a] on each side.[b] 2 The entrance was ten cubits[c] wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits[d] wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.[e](B)

3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits[f] wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits[g] wide. 4 And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall.(C) He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.(D)”

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits[h] wide. 6 The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty(E) on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.(F) 7 The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway(G) went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod, six long cubits. 9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple 10 and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. 11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.

12 The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits[i] wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.[j]

13 Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits[k] long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long. 14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:1 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters; also in verses 3, 5 and 8
  2. Ezekiel 41:1 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts side, the width of the tent
  3. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 18 feet or about 5.3 meters
  4. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verses 9, 11 and 12
  5. Ezekiel 41:2 That is, about 70 feet long and 35 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 11 meters wide
  6. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, about 3 1/2 feet or about 1.1 meters; also in verse 22
  7. Ezekiel 41:3 That is, about 12 feet or about 3.7 meters
  8. Ezekiel 41:5 That is, about 7 feet or about 2.1 meters
  9. Ezekiel 41:12 That is, about 123 feet or about 37 meters
  10. Ezekiel 41:12 That is, about 158 feet or about 48 meters
  11. Ezekiel 41:13 That is, about 175 feet or about 53 meters; also in verses 14 and 15
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