4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 1 put them in a single container, and make food 2 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 3 – you will eat it.
40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 4 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 5 and the sides 6 were 5¼ feet 7 on each side.
1 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
2 tn Heb “bread.”
3 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
4 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
5 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
6 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
7 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).