Text -- Ezekiel 40:47-49 (NET)

40:47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple. 40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet and the sides were 5¼ feet on each side. 40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet and the width 19¼ feet; steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 40:47

¹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 40:48

¹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

² tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

³ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

tn Or “sidewalls.”

⁴ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 40:49

¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

² tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).

³ tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”