Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ¹  was struck down, on this very day, ²  the hand ³  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 40:49

40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet ⁵  and the width 19¼ feet; ⁶  steps ⁷  led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ⁸  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁹  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹⁰  This entire area will be holy. ¹¹ 

[40:1]  ¹ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ² tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ³ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  ⁴ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).

[40:49]  ⁵ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

[40:49]  ⁶ tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).

[40:49]  ⁷ tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”

[45:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here 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). 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 miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[45:1]  ¹¹ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  ¹² tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”