40:24 Then he led me toward the south. I saw 3 a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.
40:28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.
1 tc Heb “each had two wings covering and each had two wings covering,” a case of dittography. On the analogy of v. 11 and the support of the LXX, which reads the same for v. 11 and this verse, one should perhaps read “each had two wings touching another being and each had two wings covering.”
2 sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.
3 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.