Discovery BoxEzekiel 40:5 
Context40:5 I saw 1 a wall all around the outside of the temple. 2 In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet 3 long. He measured the thickness of the wall 4 as 10½ feet, 5 and its height as 10½ feet.
Ezekiel 41:3
Context41:3 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
Ezekiel 41:12
Context41:12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet 9 wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet 10 all around, and its length 157½ feet. 11
Ezekiel 43:17
Context43:17 The ledge is 24½ feet 12 long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, 13 and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. 14 Its steps face east.”
1 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
2 tn Heb “house.”
3 tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section 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). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. 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 feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.
4 tn Heb “building.”
5 tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).
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 “seventy cubits” (36.75 meters).
10 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
11 tn Heb “ninety cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).
12 tn Heb “fourteen”; the word “cubits” is not in the Hebrew text but is understood from the context; the phrase occurs again later in this verse. Fourteen cubits is about 7.35 meters.
13 tn Heb “half a cubit” (i.e., 26.25 cm).
14 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
