Ezekiel 31:5

31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,

because of the plentiful water in its shoots.¹

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 feet² long and 43¾ feet³ wide.

40:25 There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others;⁴ 87½ feet⁵ long and 43¾ feet⁶ wide.

40:43 There were hooks⁷ three inches⁸ long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

40:47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide;⁹ the altar was in front of the temple.

42:7 As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet¹⁰ long.

42:20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.

¹tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).

²tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

³tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

⁴tn Heb “as these windows.”

⁵tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

⁶tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

⁷tc This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.

⁸tn Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).

⁹tn Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).

¹⁰tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).