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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 41:8

And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Reed;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Reed;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cubit;   Weights and Measures;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cherub;   Measures;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Height;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10½ feet high.
Hebrew Names Version
I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
King James Version
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
English Standard Version
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
New American Standard Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.
New Century Version
I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all around. Its edge was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was ten and one-half feet thick.
Amplified Bible
I also saw that the temple (house) had a raised platform all around it; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full rod of six long cubits in height.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I sawe also the house hie rounde about: the foundations of the chambers were a full reede of fixe great cubites.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.
Legacy Standard Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.
Berean Standard Bible
I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
Contemporary English Version
The temple rested on a stone base ten feet high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms.
Complete Jewish Bible
I saw that the house had a raised pavement all around it which extended outward a full rod of ten-and-a-half feet from where the foundations of the side-rooms joined it.
Darby Translation
And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.
Easy-to-Read Version
I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all the way around it. It was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was a full ruler high.
George Lamsa Translation
I saw also the height of the house round about; and the side rooms were separated one from another a full measuring reed of six cubits.
Good News Translation
The outside wall of these rooms was 8 feet thick; there was one door into the rooms on the north side of the Temple, and one into those on the south side. I saw that there was a terrace 8 feet wide around the Temple; it was 10 feet above the ground and it was level with the foundation of the rooms by the Temple walls. Between the terrace and the buildings used by the priests there was an open space 34 feet across, along the sides of the Temple.
Lexham English Bible
And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.
Literal Translation
I also saw the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed, six cubits by joining.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I sawe also that the house was very hye rounde aboute. The foundacion of the syde chambres was a meterodde (that is sixe cubites) brode.
American Standard Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Bible in Basic English
And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six cubits to the joining.
King James Version (1611)
I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reede of sixe great cubites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I saw the house hye round about: the foundatios of the chambers [were] a ful cane of sixe cubites vp to the armeholes.
English Revised Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
World English Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y siy in the hous an hiynesse bi cumpas, the sidis foundid at the mesure of a rehed in the space of sixe cubitis;
Update Bible Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
I saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the side-chambers [were] a full reed of six great cubits.
New English Translation
I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.
New King James Version
I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, that is, six cubits high.
New Living Translation
I saw that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1⁄2 feet high.
New Life Bible
I saw that the house had a raised base all around it, which made the base for the side rooms six cubits high.
New Revised Standard
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then saw I that the house had a height round about on every side, - the foundations of the side- chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joining.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six cubits:
Revised Standard Version
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform round about; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have looked at the house, the height all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers [are] the fulness of the reed, six cubits by the joining.
THE MESSAGE
I observed that the Temple had a ten-and-a-half-foot-thick raised base around it, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. The outside walls of the side rooms were eight and three-quarters feet thick. The open area between the side rooms of the Temple and the priests' rooms was a thirty-five-foot-wide strip all around the Temple. There were two entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one placed on the north side, the other on the south. There were eight and three-quarters feet of open space all around.

Contextual Overview

1 And he brought me into the temple, the porch of which he measured, six cubits the breadth on one side, and six cubits the breadth of the porch on the other side. 2 And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forth cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the side-pieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side. 4 And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple: and he said, This is the holy of holies. 5 And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about. 6 And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house. 7 And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground-sills to the third story. 8 And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits; 9 and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house, 10 and between the chambers, were a width of twenty cubits, the circumference of the house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a full: Ezekiel 40:5, Revelation 21:16

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 43:13 - The cubits

Cross-References

Genesis 40:6
Joseph went in to them in the morning, and saw them, and they had been troubled.
Genesis 40:8
And they said to him, We have seen a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Is not the interpretation of them through god? tell them than to me.
Genesis 41:1
And it came to pass after two full years that Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood upon the bank of the river.
Genesis 41:6
And, behold, seven ears thin and blasted with the wind, grew up after them.
Genesis 41:8
And it was morning, and his soul was troubled; and he sent and called all the interpreters of Egypt, and all her wise men; and Pharao related to them his dream, and there was no one to interpret it to Pharao.
Genesis 41:9
And the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharao, saying, I this day remember my fault:
Genesis 41:11
And we had a dream both in one night, I and he; we saw, each according to his dream.
Genesis 41:12
And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard; and we related to him our dreams, and he interpreted them to us.
Genesis 41:13
And it came to pass, as he interpreted them to us, so also it happened, both that I was restored to my office, and that he was hanged.
Genesis 41:14
And Pharao having sent, called Joseph; and they brought him out from the prison, and shaved him, and changed his dress, and he came to Pharao.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I saw also the height of the house round about,.... Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have been no room for windows to let in light into it:

the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits; not of the lowest storey of them, for that was but four cubits broad, Ezekiel 41:5, nor of the middlemost, which was five; but of the uppermost, which was six; and these were cubits of the largest size, a hand's breadth larger than the common cubit, and made one full reed, or three yards and a half; see Ezekiel 40:5, these foundations signify the same as the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem; and which are no other than the one foundation Christ, ministerially laid by his twelve apostles; and who is the only foundation of his church and people, and is a sure one, Revelation 21:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The foundations of the side chambers - Therefore the height of the side-chambers from the floor was six cubits there being three stories, which corresponds sufficiently with the twenty cubits which was the height of the temple. “A great cubit” is probably an architectural term to denote the line of junction between two stories, which would be that of the ceiling of the lower and the floor of the upper story.


 
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