Discovery BoxEzekiel 41:1-9
Context41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet 1 wide on each side. 41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, 2 and the sides 3 of the entrance were 8¾ feet 4 on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, 5 and its width as 35 feet. 6
41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, 7 the entrance as 10½ feet, 8 and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 9 41:4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet, 10 and its width as 35 feet, 11 before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple 12 as 10½ feet, 13 and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, 14 all around the temple. 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; 15 for the structure 16 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.
41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick 17 of 10½ feet 18 high. 41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, 19 and the open area between the side chambers of the temple
[41:1] 1 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
[41:2] 2 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
[41:2] 3 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
[41:2] 4 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
[41:2] 5 tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
[41:2] 6 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
[41:3] 7 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
[41:3] 8 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
[41:3] 9 tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
[41:4] 10 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
[41:4] 11 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
[41:5] 12 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
[41:5] 13 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
[41:5] 14 tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).
[41:7] 15 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] 16 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
