Ezekiel 41:1-2

The Inner Temple

41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet ¹  wide on each side. 41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, ²  and the sides ³  of the entrance were 8¾ feet ⁴  on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, ⁵  and its width as 35 feet. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 41:4

41:4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet, ⁷  and its width as 35 feet, ⁸  before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

¹ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

² tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).

³ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

⁴ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

⁵ tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).

⁶ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

³ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

⁴ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).