40:38 There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; 2 there they washed the burnt offering.
1 tn Heb “which I lifted up my hand.”
2 tc The MT reads “jambs of the gates” which does not make sense in a context discussing one chamber. The emendation to “porch” is similar to v. 14. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:530.