Ezekiel 40:11

Bible in Basic English

And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he measured the width of the gate’s entrance; it was 17½ feet, while the width of the gate was 22¾ feet.

Hebrew Names Version
He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

King James Version
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

English Standard Version
Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

New American Standard Bible
And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

New Century Version
The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide. The width of the gate was about twenty-three feet.

Amplified Bible
And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate ten cubites, and the height of the gate thirteene cubites.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Berean Standard Bible
And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

Contemporary English Version
Next, the man measured the width of the passageway, and it was twenty-two feet, but the two doors of the gate were only sixteen feet wide.

Complete Jewish Bible
He measured the width of the opening to the gateway at seventeen-and-a-half feet and the width of the passage through the gateway at twenty-two-and-three-quarters feet.

Darby Translation
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Easy-to-Read Version
The man measured the entrance to the gateway. It was 10 cubits wide and 13 cubits long.

George Lamsa Translation
And he measured the breadth of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Good News Translation
Next, the man measured the width of the passageway in the gateway. It was 22 feet altogether, and the space between the open gates was 16 feet.

Lexham English Bible
And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubits and the length of the gateway was thirteen cubits.

Literal Translation
And he measured the breadth of the gate opening, ten cubits; the length of the gate was thirteen cubits.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After this, he measured the wydenesse of the dore: which was x cubites, & the heyth of the dore xiij cubites.

American Standard Version
And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

King James Version (1611)
And hee measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteene cubites.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this, he measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate ten cubites, and the heyght of the gate thirteene cubites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits.

English Revised Version
And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate thirteen cubits;

World English Bible
He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he mat the breede of the lyntel of the yate of ten cubitis, and the lengthe of the yate of threttene cubitis.

Update Bible Version
And he measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

New English Translation
He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.

New King James Version
He measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

New Living Translation
The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17 1⁄2 feet wide at the opening and 22 3⁄4 feet wide in the gateway passage.

New Life Bible
Then he showed me that the opening of the gateway was ten cubits wide and thirteen cubits long.

New Revised Standard
Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the width of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then measured he the breadth of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits - the length of the gate, thirteen cubits,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate ten cubits: and the length of the gate thirteen cubits:

Revised Standard Version
Then he measured the breadth of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the breadth of the opening of the gate ten cubits, the length of the gate thirteen cubits;

THE MESSAGE
He measured the outside entrance to the gate complex: fifteen feet wide and nineteen and a half feet deep.

Contextual Overview

⁵ And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod. ⁶ Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide. ⁷ And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod. ⁸ And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside, ⁹ Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside. ¹⁰ And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size. ¹¹ And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits; ¹² And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that. ¹³ And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door. ¹⁴ And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 40:13 - the gate

Cross-References

Genesis 40:21
And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Genesis 49:11
Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:

Leviticus 10:9
Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

1 Kings 10:5
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

2 Chronicles 9:4
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

Proverbs 3:10
So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits,.... Five yards, two feet and a half: this was the measure of the eastern gate, whether outward or inward; for they were both of a measure, as appears from the thresholds being alike:

and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; that is, the height of it; it was seven yards and three inches high; a prodigious gate this! a fit emblem of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the open door, the gate of life, through which whoever enters shall be saved; and there is room for multitudes to enter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The east gate-building. See Plan III.

Ezekiel 40:6

Stairs - Seven in number Ezekiel 40:22. Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ft.). The measurements are being taken from East to west, i. e., in depth.

Ezekiel 40:7

Every little chamber - The guard-chambers (a) for the use of the Levites who kept watch in the temple.

The threshold of the gate by the porch - The second threshold in the easternmost gate-way (c).

Porch - Hebrew אולם 'ûlâm; the Septuagint: αἰλάμ ailam; Vulgate: vestibulum. The word probably means porch or portico, connected with “ail” post or pillar.

Ezekiel 40:9

The porch is now measured from north to south in “wide.” “The breadth of the entry of the gate” was “ten cubits,” made up of the “eight cubits,” with “a cubit” for “a post” or pillar on each side Ezekiel 40:11.

Posts - A projection like a ram’s horn; in architecture, a column projecting from the wall with its base, shaft, and capital, or it may be the “base” only Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:49. Here “post” represents the lower part of the column. and the dimensions given are those of the section of the base.

Ezekiel 40:10

In front of each guard-chamber were columns, whose “posts” (bases) were each one cubit square.

Ezekiel 40:11

The length of the gate - The length of the gateway (including the porch, E.) from the court to the uncovered space. The threshold was “six cubits,” and the porch “six.” In addition one cubit was probably allowed in front of the porch, as before the porch of the temple itself Ezekiel 40:49.

Ezekiel 40:13

This measurement is across the gate-building from north to south. The breadth of the gate-building was exactly half its length Ezekiel 40:15.

Ezekiel 40:14

Posts of threescore cubits - Sixty cubits were the length of a series of columns. This gives us another feature of the gate-building. Between the porch (E) and the two most western guard-chambers was a space of five cubits (through which the road passed), forming a kind of hall with columns along the sides. This hall is called the “arches” Ezekiel 40:16. A hall of the same dimensions was between the boundary wall and eastern guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:31. It is probable that in one of these halls (that of the eastern gateway of the inner court) the prince “ate bread” on solemn festivals Ezekiel 44:3.

Unto the post of the court round about the gate - This hall or colonnade extended the whole breadth of the building to the pavement (Ezekiel 40:18, H, Plan II). Outside the building on the pavement was a series of pillars.

Ezekiel 40:15

The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:

Thickness of boundary wall	6 cubits
Hall of the entrance	5 cubits
Three guard-chambers (6 cubits)	18 cubits
Spaces between guard-chambers	10 cubits
Hall of the porch	5 cubits
The porch	6 cubits
Total	50 cubits

Ezekiel 40:16

The “narrow” (closed and (?)latticed “windows” lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the “post” stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.