40:38 There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; 5 there they washed the burnt offering.
1 tn Heb “made.”
2 tc The MT reads “jambs” which does not make sense in context. Supposing a confusion of yod for vav, the text may be emended to read “porch.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:518.
3 tn Heb “sixty cubits” (i.e., 31.5 meters).
4 tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for sense.
5 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.
9 tn The precise Hebrew word used here to refer to an “altar hearth” occurs only here in the OT.
10 tn Heb “twelve cubits” (i.e., 6.3 meters; the phrase occurs twice in this verse).