48:13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles 13 in length and three and one-third miles 14 in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles 15 and the width three and one-third miles. 16
1 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
2 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
3 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
4 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
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).
7 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
8 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm; the phrase occurs again later in this verse).
9 tn Heb “four cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters; the phrase also occurs in the next verse).
9 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
10 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
11 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
12 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).