Text -- Ezekiel 41:1-2 (NET)

The Inner Temple

41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side. 41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 41:1

¹ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:2

¹ tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).

² 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.”

³ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

⁴ tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).

⁵ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).