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. 40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet 5 and the width 19¼ feet; 6 steps 7 led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either 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).
5 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
6 tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).
7 tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”