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 2 was struck down, on this very day, 3 the hand 4 of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. 5
40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 8 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 9 and the sides 10 were 5¼ feet 11 on each side.
1 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
2 sn That is, Jerusalem.
3 tn April 19, 573
4 tn Or “power.”
5 sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).
3 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
4 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
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).
5 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
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 “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
8 tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
9 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).