Ezekiel 40:18

Bible in Basic English

And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
which flanked the courtyard’s gates and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Hebrew Names Version
The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

King James Version
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

English Standard Version
And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.

New American Standard Bible
And the pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

New Century Version
The pavement ran alongside the gates and was as deep as the gates were wide. This was the lower pavement.

Amplified Bible
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the pauement was by the side of the gates ouer against the length of the gates, and the pauement was beneath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

Legacy Standard Bible
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

Berean Standard Bible
which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Contemporary English Version
This was known as the lower sidewalk, and it was eighty-five feet wide.

Complete Jewish Bible
The flooring was alongside the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates [from outside to inside], this lower flooring.

Darby Translation
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answering to the length of the gates, [namely] the lower pavement.

Easy-to-Read Version
The pavement was as wide as the gates were long. The pavement reached to the inside end of the gateway. This was the lower pavement.

George Lamsa Translation
And the steps by the side of the gates were opposite the stairway at the lower pavement.

Good News Translation
which extended around the courtyard. This outer courtyard was at a lower level than the inner courtyard.

Lexham English Bible
And the pavement flanked the side of the gates and all along the gates; this describes the lower pavement.

Literal Translation
And the pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now the paued worke was a loge besyde the dores, and that was the lower paued worke.

American Standard Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

King James Version (1611)
And the pauement by the side of the gates ouer against the length of the gates, was the lower pauement.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the pauement [was] by the side of the gates, ouer against the length of the gates: and the pauement [was] beneath.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the porticos were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.

English Revised Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

World English Bible
The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the pawment was bynethe in the front of the yatis, bi the lengthe of the yatis.

Update Bible Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates [was] the lower pavement.

New English Translation
The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

New King James Version
The pavement was by the side of the gateways, corresponding to the length of the gateways; this was the lower pavement.

New Living Translation
This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement.

New Life Bible
The lower stone floor was beside the gates, and was as wide as the gates.

New Revised Standard
The pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the pavement, was against the side of the gates, answering to the length of the gates, - the lower pavement,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was lower.

Revised Standard Version
And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Young's Literal Translation
and the pavement unto the side of the gates over-against the length of the gates [is] the lower pavement;

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.

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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 42:3 - the pavement

Cross-References

Genesis 40:12
Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

Genesis 41:26
The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

1 Corinthians 10:4
And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:24
And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the pavement by the sides of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. That is, this pavement, which went along by every gate, and answered the length of them, and what appertained to them, east, west, north, and south, was either lower than the pavement in the inward court, adjoining to this, to which there was an ascent by steps; or the middle part of this pavement rose up in a convex form, and on all sides there was a declivity; by which means all filth was washed away, and it was kept clean, and always fit to walk on. This distinction of a higher and lower pavement, whether on one account or another, may point out; the one, the believer's walk by faith on Christ; and the other, his walk in the ordinances of Christ, and in all becoming conversation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “outward” or outer “court” (o, Plan II) corresponds to what was in Herod’s temple the court of Women, into which all Jews, but not Gentiles were admitted.

Ezekiel 40:17

Chambers - (I) See Jeremiah 35:2.

A pavement - (H) Of mosaic work 2 Chronicles 7:3; Esther 1:6 which formed a border of forty-four cubits. On each side of the court in which there were gates, i. e., on east, north, and south. It was called the “lower pavement” to distinguish it from the pavement of the inner court; the outer court being lower than the inner Ezekiel 40:31.

Ezekiel 40:19

There were eastern, northern, and southern gates of entrance from the outer to the inner court (B).

Without - Not as in the margin, but looking outward, i. e., the outward front of the inner gate toward the outer court.