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Bishop's Bible

Ezekiel 42:19

He turned about [also] to the west side, and measured fiue hundred canes, by the measuring cane.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he turned to the west side
Hebrew Names Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
King James Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
English Standard Version
Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.
New American Standard Bible
He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod.
New Century Version
He went around to the west side; it measured eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
Amplified Bible
He turned about to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He turned about also to the West side, and measured fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reede.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Legacy Standard Bible
He turned to the west side and measured 500 reeds with the measuring reed.
Berean Standard Bible
And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
Complete Jewish Bible
He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet with the measuring rod.
Darby Translation
He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.
Easy-to-Read Version
He went around to the west side and measured it. It was 500 cubits long.
George Lamsa Translation
He measured the west side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Lexham English Bible
He went around the west side and he measured five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement.
Literal Translation
He turned to the west side, measuring five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the west (which he measured) conteyned ether of them v.C. meteroddes.
American Standard Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Bible in Basic English
And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
King James Version (1611)
Hee turned about to the West side, and measured fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reed.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
English Revised Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
World English Bible
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And at the west wynd he mat fyue hundrid rehedis, with the rehed of mesure.
Update Bible Version
And he turned about to the west side: he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Webster's Bible Translation
He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
New English Translation
He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring stick.
New King James Version
He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
New Living Translation
and the west side was also 875 feet.
New Life Bible
And the west side was as long as 500 sticks.
New Revised Standard
Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He turned about to the west side, - he measured five hundred reeds, by the measuring reed.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Revised Standard Version
Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
Young's Literal Translation
He hath turned round unto the west side, he hath measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.
THE MESSAGE
Last of all he went to the west side and measured it: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

Contextual Overview

15 Now when he had finished the measuring of the house within, he led me foorth toward the gate whose prospect is towarde the east, and he measured it rounde about. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring cane fiue hundred canes, [euen] with the measuring cane round about. 17 And he measured the north side fyue hundred canes, [euen] with the measuring cane round about. 18 The south side also measured he fiue hundred canes, by the measuring cane. 19 He turned about [also] to the west side, and measured fiue hundred canes, by the measuring cane. 20 So he measured it by the foure sides: it had a wall round about fyue hundred canes long, and fiue hundred broade, to make a separation betweene the sanctuarie, and the prophane place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 27:9 - the court

Cross-References

Genesis 40:3
And put them in warde in his chiefe stewardes house, euen in the prison and place where Ioseph was bounde.
Genesis 41:56
And the dearth was throughout all the lande: and Ioseph opened all the barnes wherein was corne, and solde vnto the Egyptians: for the famine waxed sore in the lande of Egypt.
Genesis 42:1
And Iacob seing that there was corne in Egypt, sayde vnto his sonnes: why gape ye one vpon another?
Genesis 42:2
And he said: behold, I haue hearde that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thyther, and bye vs corne from thence, that we may liue, and not dye.
Genesis 42:26
And they laded theyr asses with the corne, and departed thence.
Genesis 45:23
And vnto his father he sent after the same maner ten asses laden with good out of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corne, & bread, and meate, for his father by the way.
Isaiah 42:7
That thou mayest open the eyes of the blinde, let out the prisoners from their bondes, and them that sit in darknesse out of the dungeon house.
Isaiah 42:22
But the people them selues is robbed and troden vnder the foote, chayned in dungeons, and they all I say, are shut into prison houses: they be caryed away captiue, and no man doth loose them: they be troden vnder foote, and no man doth labour to bryng them agayne.
Jeremiah 37:15
Wherfore the princes were angry with Ieremie, & smote hym, and layde hym in prison in the house of Ionathan the scribe: for they had made that house the prison.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He turned about to the west side,.... And took the dimensions of that, from angle to angle, the south and north points of it:

and measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed; and it was exactly of the same measure with the other three sides.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Precincts. The temple and its courts were surrounded by an area of exact dimensions 3,000 cubits (1,500 yards) square. See Plan IV.

Ezekiel 42:15

The inner house - The temple and its courts, all that lay within the “wall on the outside of the house Ezekiel 40:5; the gate” is the eastern gate of the outer court.

Measured it round about - The precincts, into which he had brought the seer through the eastern gate of the outer court.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 42:19. Ezekiel 42:16.


 
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