48:8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles 4 wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.
1 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
2 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm; the phrase occurs again later in this verse).
3 tn Heb “four cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters; the phrase also occurs in the next verse).
4 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).