Yehezkiel 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.

Yehezkiel 48:1

The Tribal Portions

48:1 “These are the names of the tribes: From the northern end beside the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath), extending from the east side to the west, Dan will have one portion.

Yehezkiel 48:10-11

48:10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ⁶  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ⁷  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ⁸  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ⁹  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle. 48:11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 48:13

48:13 “Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles ¹¹  in length and three and one-third miles ¹²  in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles ¹³  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹⁴ 

[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).

[48:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “strayed off.”

[48:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ¹² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).