Discovery BoxEzekiel 31:5 
Context31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,
because of the plentiful water in its shoots. 1
Ezekiel 40:21
Context40:21 Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet 2 long and 43¾ feet 3 wide.
Ezekiel 40:25
Context40:25 There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 4 87½ feet 5 long and 43¾ feet 6 wide.
Ezekiel 40:43
Context40:43 There were hooks 7 three inches 8 long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
Ezekiel 40:47
Context40:47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; 9 the altar was in front of the temple.
Ezekiel 42:7
Context42:7 As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet 10 long.
Ezekiel 42:20
Context42:20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.
1 tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).
2 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
3 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
4 tn Heb “as these windows.”
5 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
6 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
7 tc This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.
8 tn Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).
9 tn Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).
10 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
