Ezekiel 40:15

Bishop's Bible

And from the forefront of the entrie of the gate, vnto the forefront of the gate within [were] fiftie cubites.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the gate’s portico on the inside was 87½ feet.

Hebrew Names Version
[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

King James Version
And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

English Standard Version
From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

New American Standard Bible
And from the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

New Century Version
From the front of the outer side of the gateway to the front of the porch of the inner side of the gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet.

Amplified Bible
From the front of the entrance gate [on the outside] to the front of the inner porch (portico) of the gate [the distance] was fifty cubits.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And vpon the forefront of the entry of the gate vnto the forefront of the porch of the gate within were fiftie cubites.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

Legacy Standard Bible
From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

Berean Standard Bible
And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, he measured the total length of the passageway, from the outer wall to the entrance room, and it was eighty-five feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
The distance along the passage from the outer opening of the gateway to the far side of the entranceway at the inner end of the gateway was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.

Darby Translation
And from the front of the gate of the entrance unto the front of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

Easy-to-Read Version
From the inside edge of the outer gate to the far end of the porch was 50 cubits.

George Lamsa Translation
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the portico of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

Good News Translation
The total length of the gateway from the outside wall of the gate to the far side of the last room was 84 feet.

Lexham English Bible
And from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

Literal Translation
And on the face of the entrance gate, to the face of the porch of the inner gate, was fifty cubits;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Before the inwarde parte vnto the fore entre of the ynnermer dore, were fiftie cubites.

American Standard Version
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Bible in Basic English
And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

King James Version (1611)
And from the face of the gate of the entrance, vnto the face of the porch of the inner gate, were fiftie cubites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

English Revised Version
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

World English Bible
[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and bifor the face of the yate that stretchith forth til to the face of the porche of the ynner yate, he mat fifti cubitis.

Update Bible Version
And [from] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Webster's Bible Translation
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate [were] fifty cubits.

New English Translation
From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.

New King James Version
From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

New Living Translation
The full length of the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet from one end to the other.

New Life Bible
It was fifteen cubits from the front of the outer gate to the front of the porch of the inner gate.

New Revised Standard
From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and from e the face of the gate outwards, unto the face of the porch of the inner gate, was fifty cubits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And before the face of the gate which reached even to the face of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits.

Revised Standard Version
From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
and by the front of the gate of the entrance, by the front of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits;

THE MESSAGE
The distance from the entrance of the gate complex to the far end of the porch was seventy-five feet.

Contextual Overview

⁵ Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house, rounde about: the cane to measure with that he had in his hande, was sixe cubites long by the cubite & a hande breadth: So he measured the breadth of the building with one cane, and the heyght with one cane. ⁶ Then came he to the gate which loketh toward the east, and went vp the staires therof, and measured the post of the gate one cane broade, and the other post of the gate one cane broade. ⁷ And [euery] chamber was one cane long and one cane broade, and betweene the chambers were fiue cubites: and the post of the gate by the porche of the gate within, was one cane. ⁸ He measured also the porche of the gate within one cane. ⁹ Then measured he the porche of the gate eyght cubites: & the pentises therof two cubites, and the porche of the gate [was] inwarde. ¹⁰ And the chambers of the gate eastward, were three on this side, & three on that side: they three were of one measure, & the pentises had one measure on this side, and one measure on that side. ¹¹ After this, he measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate ten cubites, and the heyght of the gate thirteene cubites. ¹² The space also before the chambers was one cubite [on this side] and the space one cubite on that side: & the chambers sixe cubites on this side, and sixe cubites on that side. ¹³ He measured the gate from the roofe of a chamber to his owne roofe the breadth of fiue and twentie cubites: doore against doore. ¹⁴ He made frontes also of threescore cubites, [euen] vnto the front of the court rounde about the gate.

Bible Verse Review
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the face of the gate: This was the whole length of the porch, from the outward front - Ezekiel 41:21, Ezekiel 41:25, to the inner side which looks into the first court - Ezekiel 40:17, including the thickness of the walls - Ezekiel 40:6, chambers - Ezekiel 40:7, and spaces between them. Ezekiel 40:15

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:11 - the porch Ezekiel 40:21 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 14:13
And there came one that had escaped, and tolde Abram the Hebrewe, whiche dwelled in the playne of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eschol, and brother of Aner, whiche were confederate with Abram.

Genesis 39:20
And Iosephes maister toke hym, and put hym in pryson, euen into the place where the kynges prysoners laye bounde: and there continued he in prison.

Genesis 40:3
And put them in warde in his chiefe stewardes house, euen in the prison and place where Ioseph was bounde.

Genesis 40:4
And the chiefe steward gaue Ioseph a charge with them, & he serued them: and they continued a season in warde.

Genesis 40:8
They aunswered him: We haue dreamed a dreame, and haue no man to declare it. And Ioseph sayde vnto them: do not interpretinges belong to God? tell me I pray you.

Genesis 40:10
And in the vine [were] three braunches, and it was as though it budded, & her blossomes shot foorth: and the clusters therof brought foorth rype grapes.

Genesis 40:11
And I had Pharaos cup in my hand, and toke of the grapes and pressed them in Pharaos cuppe, and deliuered Pharaos cuppe into his hande.

Genesis 40:12
And Ioseph sayde vnto hym, this is the interpretatio of it. The three braunches are three dayes.

Genesis 40:17
And in the vppermost basket there was of all maner bake meates for Pharao, and the birdes dyd eate them out of the basket that was vpon my head.

Genesis 40:18
And Ioseph aunswered and saide: this is the interpretation thereof. The three baskettes, are three dayes:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And from the face of the gate of the entrance,.... That is, from the outward gate as you went into the porch, and was to the east, so called from people's passing and repassing b in it; so Jarchi takes it to be the eastern gate; the Targum calls it the middle gate:

unto the face of the porch of the inner gate; which opened at the other end of the porch, into the outward court, and was to the west: from gate to gate

were fifty cubits; as he measured the breadth of the porch before,

Ezekiel 40:13, here the length; there were three chambers six cubits long, which made eighteen; and between each chamber were five cubits, which were ten cubits; and the space between the chambers and the gates at each end were six cubits each; Ezekiel 40:8, which make twelve more; and then allow ten cubits for the thickness of both walls of each gate, and there will be fifty cubits, or twenty nine yards and half a foot.

b Vid. R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 9. 1.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 40:15. Fifty cubits. — The length of the building. See MMMMM in the plan. Ezekiel 48:35.