Yehezkiel 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 

Yehezkiel 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 ⁵  and its width 43¾ feet. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 40:48

40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet ⁷  on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet ⁸  and the sides ⁹  were 5¼ feet ¹⁰  on each side.

Yehezkiel 41:2

41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, ¹¹  and the sides ¹²  of the entrance were 8¾ feet ¹³  on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, ¹⁴  and its width as 35 feet. ¹⁵ 

[40:1]  ¹ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ² tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ³ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

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

[40:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[40:48]  ⁷ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

[40:48]  ⁸ tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

[40:48]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

[40:48]  tn Or “sidewalls.”

[40:48]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

[41:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).

[41:2]  ¹² tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

[41:2]  tn Or “sidewalls.”

[41:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

[41:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).

[41:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).