Text -- Ezekiel 41:1-5 (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. 41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 41:4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.” 41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.

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).

NET Notes: Eze 41:3

¹ tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

² tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

³ tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:4

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

² tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:5

¹ tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.

² tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

³ tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).