Ezekiel 40:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch carefully, listen carefully, and pay attention to[a] everything that I am about to show you, because you were brought here so that I could show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.”
The Wall and Outer Gates
The Wall
5 I saw a wall[b] all the way around the temple compound. In the man’s hand was the measuring rod, six cubits long (using the long cubit).[c] When he measured the thickness of the structure, it was one rod thick, and its height was one rod.
The East Gatehouse
6 Then he approached the gatehouse[d] that was on the east side of the temple compound and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate. It was one rod deep.[e]
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- Ezekiel 40:4 Literally look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your heart on
- Ezekiel 40:5 Feature A on the diagram of the temple
- Ezekiel 40:5 A long cubit is about 21 inches long instead of the standard 18 inches. A long cubit consists of the regular cubit (18 inches) plus a handbreadth (3 inches). The measuring rod is therefore about 10½ feet long. Because some of the numbers in the descriptions of the land and the temple have symbolic value, the translation (contrary to our normal practice) will retain the measurements in cubits. Footnotes converting some of the measurements to feet will help readers visualize the size of the temple and its objects. All conversions are rounded off.
- Ezekiel 40:6 The “gates” (Hebrew sha’ar) in the temple compound are not simply doored entryways. They are complex structures. The EHV generally uses gatehouse as the name for the structure and gateway for the passageway through the gatehouse, but it is not always possible to identify such distinctions with certainty. This gatehouse is structure B on the diagram.
- Ezekiel 40:6 The Hebrew reads measured the threshold of the gate, one rod deep, ⎣and one threshold, one rod deep.⎦ The words marked here by half-brackets are not included in the Greek text, and they do not appear in the translation above.
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