Ezekiel 1:27

1:27 I saw an amber glow ¹  like a fire enclosed all around ²  from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

Ezekiel 40:5

40:5 I saw ³  a wall all around the outside of the temple. ⁴  In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet ⁵  long. He measured the thickness of the wall ⁶  as 10½ feet, ⁷  and its height as 10½ feet.

Ezekiel 40:29

40:29 Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet ⁸  and its width 43¾ feet. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 40:33

40:33 Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet ¹⁰  and its width 43¾ feet. ¹¹ 

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; ¹²  for the structure ¹³  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 41:12

41:12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet ¹⁴  wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet ¹⁵  all around, and its length 157½ feet. ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 43:17

43:17 The ledge is 24½ feet ¹⁷  long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, ¹⁸  and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. ¹⁹  Its steps face east.”

[1:27]  ¹ tn See Ezek 1:4.

[1:27]  ² tc The LXX lacks this phrase. Its absence from the LXX may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (kÿmar’eh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmar’eh). On the other hand, the LXX presents a much more balanced verse structure when it is recognized that the final words of this verse belong in the next sentence.

[40:5]  ³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[40:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[40:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[40:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “building.”

[40:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).

[40:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[40:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[41:7]  ⁹ 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.

[41:7]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.

[41:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “seventy cubits” (36.75 meters).

[41:12]  ¹² tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

[41:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “ninety cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).

[43:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “fourteen”; the word “cubits” is not in the Hebrew text but is understood from the context; the phrase occurs again later in this verse. Fourteen cubits is about 7.35 meters.

[43:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “half a cubit” (i.e., 26.25 cm).

[43:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).