Ezekiel 40:5

40:5 I saw ¹  a wall all around the outside of the temple. ²  In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet ³  long. He measured the thickness of the wall ⁴  as 10½ feet, ⁵  and its height as 10½ feet.

Ezekiel 40:21

40:21 Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet ⁶  long and 43¾ feet ⁷  wide.

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 40:49

40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet ¹²  and the width 19¼ feet; ¹³  steps ¹⁴  led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

Ezekiel 41:22

41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet ¹⁵  high, with its length 3½ feet; ¹⁶  its corners, its length, ¹⁷  and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”

Ezekiel 43:17

43:17 The ledge is 24½ feet ¹⁸  long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, ¹⁹  and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. ²⁰  Its steps face east.”

[40:5]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[40:5]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[40:5]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “building.”

[40:5]  ⁵ 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).

[40:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[40:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:29]  ¹² tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[40:33]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:33]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[40:49]  ²¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

[40:49]  ²² tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).

[40:49]  ²³ tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”

[41:22]  ²⁶ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

[41:22]  ²⁷ tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

[41:22]  ²⁸ tc So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”

[43:17]  ³¹ 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]  ³² tn Heb “half a cubit” (i.e., 26.25 cm).

[43:17]  ³³ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).