Eze 41:1-14 | NET2full | STEP | Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs ; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side .

‏ Ezekiel 41:1-14

The Inner Temple

1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).} wide on each side. 2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, ^{▼▼tn Heb “10 cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).} and the sides ^{▼▼tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was 3 cubits,” the omission due to haplography.} ^{▼▼tn Or “sidewalls.”} of the entrance were 8¾ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).} on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “40 cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).} and its width as 35 feet. ^{▼▼tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).}

3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, ^{▼▼tn Heb “2 cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).} the entrance as 10½ feet, ^{▼▼tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).} and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet. ^{▼▼tn Heb “7 cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).} 4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).} and its width as 35 feet, ^{▼▼tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).} before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple ^{▼▼tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.} as 10½ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).} and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, ^{▼▼tn Heb “4 cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters).} all around the temple. 6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, 30 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. 7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story, ^{▼▼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.} for the structure surrounding ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.} 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.

8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick ^{▼▼tn Heb “reed.”} of 10½ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “6 cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).} high. 9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, ^{▼▼tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).} and the open area between the side chambers of the temple 10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “20 cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).} in width all around the temple on every side. 11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).} all around.

12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “70 cubits” (36.75 meters).} wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “5 cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).} thick all around, and its length 157½ feet. ^{▼▼tn Heb “90 cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).}

13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “100 cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).} long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet ^{▼▼tn Heb “100 cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).} long, 14 and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet. ^{▼▼tn Heb “100 cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).}