Ezekiel 40:5-7

New Living Translation

The East Gateway

⁵I could see a wall completely surrounding the Temple area. The man took a measuring rod that was 10 1⁄2 feet^[a] long and measured the wall, and the wall was 10 1⁄2 feet^[b] thick and 10 1⁄2 feet high.

⁶Then he went over to the eastern gateway. He climbed the steps and measured the threshold of the gateway; it was 10 1⁄2 feet front to back.^[c] ⁷There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. Each of these alcoves was 10 1⁄2 feet square, with a distance between them of 8 3⁄4 feet^[d] along the passage wall. The gateway’s inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner end of the gateway passage, was 10 1⁄2 feet front to back.

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Footnotes

40:5a Hebrew 6 long cubits [3.2 meters], each being a cubit [18 inches or 45 centimeters] and a handbreadth [3 inches or 8 centimeters] in length.
40:5b Hebrew 1 rod [3.2 meters]; also in 40:5c, 7.
40:6 As in Greek version, which reads 1 rod [3.2 meters] deep; Hebrew reads 1 rod deep, and 1 threshold, 1 rod deep.
40:7 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.7 meters]; also in 40:48.