Ezekiel 40:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹Next, the man measured the width of the passageway, and it was six and a half meters, but the two doors of the gate were only five meters wide.^[a] ¹²In front of the guardrooms, which were three meters square, was a railing about 50 centimeters high and 50 centimeters thick. ¹³The man measured the distance from the back wall^[b] of one of these rooms to the same spot in the room directly across the passageway, and it was twelve and a half meters.

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Footnotes

40.11 the width of the passageway … six and a half meters … the two doors of the gate … five meters wide: The doors themselves probably were hung on stone sockets, which could explain the two meters difference in width between the passageway and the doors.
40.13 back wall: One ancient translation; Hebrew “roof.”