Ezekiel 9:3

9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. ¹  He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

Ezekiel 9:6

9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

Ezekiel 40:48

40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet ²  on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet ³  and the sides ⁴  were 5¼ feet ⁵  on each side.

Ezekiel 41:6-7

41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple. 41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; ⁶  for the structure ⁷  surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ⁸  watch closely and listen carefully to ⁹  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ¹⁰  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

³ tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

⁴ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

⁵ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

³ tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.

⁴ tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.

⁴ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

⁵ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

⁶ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.