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Ezekiel 40:48-49
Evangelical Heritage Version
Ezekiel 40:48-49
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Temple Building
The Vestibule
48 Next he brought me to the vestibule of the temple building.[a] He measured each doorpost of the vestibule: five cubits[b] on either side. The width of the gate was ⎣fourteen cubits.[c] The sides of the gate were⎦ three cubits[d] on either side.[e] 49 The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and its width was eleven cubits.[f] One entered it by ten[g] steps, and there were pillars by the doorposts, one on either side.
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- Ezekiel 40:48 Feature K on the diagram. The Hebrew text consistently calls the temple ha-bayit, the House. To avoid confusion, in this account the EHV regularly translates this term temple, rather than house, and it distinguishes the temple building from the temple complex or temple compound when necessary.
- Ezekiel 40:48 About 9 feet
- Ezekiel 40:48 About 25 feet
- Ezekiel 40:48 About 5 feet
- Ezekiel 40:48 The words in half-brackets are present in the Greek text but not in the Hebrew text. An omission from the Hebrew text may have occurred as the Hebrew scribe’s eye skipped from one occurrence of gate to another.
- Ezekiel 40:49 About 35 feet by 20 feet
- Ezekiel 40:49 The number ten is present in the Greek text. The Hebrew text has no number.
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