Discovery BoxEzekiel 48:17-18 
Context48:17 The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, 1 on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet. 48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles 2 to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.
Ezekiel 48:20
Context48:20 The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles 3 square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.
Ezekiel 48:35
Context48:35 The circumference of the city will be six miles. 4 The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’” 5
1 tn Heb “two hundred fifty cubits” (i.e., 131.25 meters); the phrase occurs three more times in this verse.
2 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.
3 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
4 tn Heb “eighteen thousand cubits” (i.e., 9.45 kilometers).
5 sn See Rev 21:12-21.
