Ezekiel 40:17

40:17 Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw ¹  chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

Ezekiel 40:19

40:19 Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet ²  on the east and on the north.

Ezekiel 40:47

40:47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; ³  the altar was in front of the temple.

Ezekiel 41:15

41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. ⁴ 

The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, ⁵ 

Ezekiel 42:1

Chambers for the Temple

42:1 Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.

Ezekiel 42:7

42:7 As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet ⁶  long.

Ezekiel 44:27

44:27 On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 45:19

45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

Ezekiel 46:22

46:22 In the four corners of the court were small ⁷  courts, 70 feet ⁸  in length and 52½ feet ⁹  in width; the four were all the same size.

Ezekiel 42:14

42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”

Ezekiel 46:1

The Prince’s Offerings

46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east ¹⁰  will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

Ezekiel 46:20

46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

[40:17]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[40:19]  ² tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[40:47]  ³ tn Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).

[41:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[41:15]  ⁵ tc Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”

[42:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[46:22]  ⁶ tc The meaning of the Hebrew term is unclear. The LXX and Syriac render “small.”

[46:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).

[46:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “thirty cubits” (i.e., 15.75 meters).

[46:1]  ⁷ sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).