Discovery BoxEzekiel 40:6 
Context40:6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep. 1
Ezekiel 40:26
Context40:26 There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
Ezekiel 40:37
Context40:37 Its jambs 2 faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.
Ezekiel 40:49
Context40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet 3 and the width 19¼ feet; 4 steps 5 led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.
1 tn The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.
2 tc The LXX reads “porches.”
3 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
4 tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).
5 tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”
