Discovery BoxEzekiel 40:8-9 
Context40:8 Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet. 40:9 He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, 1 and its jambs as 3½ feet; 2 the porch of the gate faced inward.
Ezekiel 40:15
Context40:15 From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. 3
Ezekiel 40:48-49
Context40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 4 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 5 and the sides 6 were 5¼ feet 7 on each side. 40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet 8 and the width 19¼ feet; 9 steps 10 led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.
1 tn Heb “eight cubits” (i.e., 4.2 meters).
2 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
3 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
4 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
5 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
6 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.”
7 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).
8 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
9 tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).
10 tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”
