40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 1 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 2 and the sides 3 were 5¼ feet 4 on each side.
1 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
2 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
3 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.”
4 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).