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20 about which he said, “This is where the priests will be boiling the guilt and sin offerings and baking the grain offerings so they don’t bring them through the outer courtyard, thus diminishing the people’s holiness.”[a] 21 Then he brought me out to the exterior courtyard and led me across to each of the four corners of the courtyard. There in each corner was an enclosed area set aside, 22 all of them the same size; that is, each was 40 cubits[b] long and 30 cubits[c] wide.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 46:20 Or thus transmitting holiness to the people
  2. Ezekiel 46:22 I.e. about 70 feet; a royal cubit was about 21 inches
  3. Ezekiel 46:22 I.e. about 52.5 feet; a royal cubit was about 21 inches

20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering[a] and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating(A) the people.”(B)

21 He then brought me to the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw in each corner another court. 22 In the four corners of the outer court were enclosed[b] courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide;[c] each of the courts in the four corners was the same size.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 46:20 Or purification offering
  2. Ezekiel 46:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  3. Ezekiel 46:22 That is, about 70 feet long and 53 feet wide or about 21 meters long and 16 meters wide