40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city 1 was struck down, on this very day, 2 the hand 3 of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. 4
45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment 8 to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles 9 and the width three and one-third miles. 10 This entire area will be holy. 11
1 sn That is, Jerusalem.
2 tn April 19, 573
3 tn Or “power.”
4 sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).
5 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
6 tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).
7 tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”
9 tn Heb “a contribution.”
10 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.
11 tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”
12 tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”