Discovery BoxEzekiel 41:1-5 
Context41:1 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.”
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple 12 as 10½ feet, 13 and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, 14 all around the temple.
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).
12 tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.
13 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
14 tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).
