Ezekiel 40:48

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.

Ezekiel 41:7

41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; ⁵  for the structure ⁶  surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ⁷  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁸  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁹  This entire area will be holy. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 48:15

48:15 “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles ¹¹  in width and eight and a quarter miles ¹²  in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

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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 tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.

⁶ tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.

⁷ tn Heb “a contribution.”

⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

⁹ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

¹⁰ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

¹¹ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

¹² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).