41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, 6 the entrance as 10½ feet, 7 and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 8 41:4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet, 9 and its width as 35 feet, 10 before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple 11 as 10½ feet, 12 and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, 13 all around the temple.
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. 14
The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, 15
1 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
2 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.”
3 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
4 tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
5 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
6 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
7 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
8 tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
9 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
10 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
11 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
12 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
13 tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).
14 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
15 tc Some Hebrew