41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet 2 wide on each side.
40:24 Then he led me toward the south. I saw 14 a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.
41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, 19 the entrance as 10½ feet, 20 and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 21
40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 22 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 23 and the sides 24 were 5¼ feet 25 on each side.
1 tc The LXX reads “porches.”
2 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
3 tn Heb “eight cubits” (i.e., 4.2 meters).
4 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
5 sn The three alcoves are parallel to the city gates found at Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer.
6 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
7 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
8 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
9 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
10 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
11 tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).
12 tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”
13 sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).
14 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
15 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
16 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
17 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
18 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
19 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
20 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
21 tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
22 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
23 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
24 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
tn Or “sidewalls.”
25 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).