5:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.
5:14 “I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
40:17 Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw 7 chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple 15 as 10½ feet, 16 and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, 17 all around the temple.
41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick 18 of 10½ feet 19 high.
42:15 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple, he led me out by the gate which faces east and measured all around.
1 tn Or “a barricade.”
2 tn Heb “set camps against it.”
3 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.
4 tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.
5 tn Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”
6 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.
7 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
8 tn Heb “as these windows.”
9 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
10 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
11 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
12 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
13 tc This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.
14 tn Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).
15 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
16 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
17 tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).
18 tn Heb “reed.”
19 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).