37 Its portico[a] faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

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38 There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico.[b] The burnt offering was to be washed there.(A) 39 Inside the gate’s portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering,(B) and guilt offering.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 40:37 LXX; MT reads jambs
  2. 40:38 Text emended; MT reads door was by the jambs, at the gates

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