Ezekiel 40:7
40:7 The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. 1 The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.
Ezekiel 40:22
40:22 Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.
Ezekiel 41:15
41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. 2
The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, 3
Ezekiel 41:25-26
41:25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy 4 of wood on the front of the outside porch.
41:26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.
Ezekiel 44:3
44:3 Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal 5 before the Lord; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”
1 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters) according to the “long” cubit. See the note on the first occurrence of the phrase “10½ feet” in v. 5.
2 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
3 tc Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”
4 tn Or “railings.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:218.
5 tn Heb “to eat bread.”