41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet 1 wide on each side. 41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, 2 and the sides 3 of the entrance were 8¾ feet 4 on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, 5 and its width as 35 feet. 6
41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, 7 the entrance as 10½ feet, 8 and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 9 41:4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet, 10 and its width as 35 feet, 11 before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”
1 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
2 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
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 “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
5 tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
6 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
7 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
8 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
9 tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
10 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
11 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).