Text -- Ezekiel 42:9-20 (NET)

42:9 Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court. 42:10 At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers 42:11 with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north. Of the same length and width, and all their exits according to their arrangements and entrances 42:12 were the chambers which were toward the south. There was an opening at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east when one enters. 42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings– the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy. 42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.” 42:15 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple, he led me out by the gate which faces east and measured all around. 42:16 He measured the east side with the measuring stick as 875 feet by the measuring stick. 42:17 He measured the north side as 875 feet by the measuring stick. 42:18 He measured the south side as 875 feet by the measuring stick. 42:19 He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring stick. 42:20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 42:10

¹ tc The reading is supported by the LXX.

² tc This reading is supported by the LXX; the MT reads “east.”

NET Notes: Eze 42:12

¹ tc The MT apparently evidences dittography, repeating most of the last word of the previous verse: “and like the openings of.”

NET Notes: Eze 42:13

¹ sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).

NET Notes: Eze 42:16

¹ tn Heb “reed” (also in the following verses).

² tn Heb “five hundred cubits” (i.e., 262.5 meters).