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Then the man went to the east gateway. He went up its steps and measured the opening of the gateway. It was ·ten and one-half feet [L one rod/stick; v. 5] deep. The ·rooms for the guards [alcoves] were ·ten and one-half feet [L one rod/stick] long and ·ten and one-half feet [L one rod/stick] wide. ·The walls that came out between the guards’ rooms [L Between the alcoves] were ·about nine feet [L five cubits; v. 5] thick. The ·opening [threshold] of the gateway next to the ·porch [portico] that faced the Temple was ·ten and one-half feet [L one rod/stick] deep.

Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.

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Then he went to the east gate.(A) He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep. The alcoves(B) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[a] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

Then he measured the portico of the gateway;

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:7 That is, about 8 3/4 feet or about 2.7 meters; also in verse 48