Ezekiel 40:38

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico. The burnt offering was to be washed there.

Hebrew Names Version
A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

King James Version
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

English Standard Version
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

New American Standard Bible
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

New Century Version
There was a room with a door that opened onto the porch of the inner north gateway. In this room the priests washed animals for the burnt offerings.

Amplified Bible
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars of the gates; there the burnt offering was to be washed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And euery chamber, and the entrie thereof was vnder the postes of the gates: there they washed the burnt offring.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
Inside the entrance room of the north gate, I saw four tables, two on each side of the room, where the animals to be sacrificed were killed. Just outside this room was a small building used for washing the animals before they were offered as sacrifices to please the Lord or sacrifices for sin or sacrifices to make things right.

Complete Jewish Bible
There was a room with its entry by the supports at the gates where the burnt offerings were washed.

Darby Translation
And there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the gates; there they rinsed the burnt-offering.

Easy-to-Read Version
There was also a doorway in the side walls of the gates. That doorway led into a room where the priests washed the sacrifices.

George Lamsa Translation
And the rooms and the vestibules thereof were by the porticoes of the gates, where they placed burnt offerings.

Good News Translation
In the outer courtyard there was an annex attached to the inner gateway on the north side. It opened into the entrance room that faced the courtyard, and there they washed the carcasses of the animals to be burned whole as sacrifices.

Lexham English Bible
And a chamber with its doorway was in the pilasters at the gates, and there they rinsed off the burnt offering.

Literal Translation
And the room and its door was by the pillars of the gates; they washed the burnt offering there.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There stode a chambre also, whose intrauce was at the dore pilers, and there the burntoffringes were wa?shed.

American Standard Version
And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.

Bible in Basic English
And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.

King James Version (1611)
And the chambers, and the entries thereof were by the postes of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And a chamber and the entrie thereof [was] vnder the frotes of the gates: there they washed the burnt offeringes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Its chambers and its door-ways, and its porches at the second gate served as a drain,

English Revised Version
And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

World English Bible
A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And bi alle tresories a dore was in the frountis of yatis; and there thei waischiden brent sacrifice.

Update Bible Version
And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the chambers and its entries [were] by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering.

New English Translation
There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

New King James Version
There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, where they washed the burnt offering.

New Living Translation
A door led from the entry room of one of the inner gateways into a side room, where the meat for sacrifices was washed.

New Life Bible
There was a room with its door by the side pillars, where the burnt gifts were washed.

New Revised Standard
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there was a chamber with its entrance, within the projections at the gates, - there, shall they rinse the ascending-sacrifice, m

Douay-Rheims Bible
And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates: there they washed the holocaust.

Revised Standard Version
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

Young's Literal Translation
And the chamber and its opening [is] by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.

THE MESSAGE
There was a room with a door at the vestibule of the gate complex where the burnt offerings were cleaned. Two tables were placed within the vestibule, one on either side, on which the animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were slaughtered. Two tables were also placed against both outside walls of the vestibule—four tables inside and four tables outside, eight tables in all for slaughtering the sacrificial animals. The four tables used for the burnt offerings were thirty-one and a half inches square and twenty-one inches high. The tools for slaughtering the sacrificial animals and other sacrifices were kept there. Meat hooks, three inches long, were fastened to the walls. The tables were for the sacrificial animals.

Contextual Overview

²⁷The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits. ²⁸Next he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others. ²⁹Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁰(There were porticoes all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.) ³¹Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees. Eight steps led up to it. ³²And he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others. ³³Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. ³⁴Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees on each side. Eight steps led up to it. ³⁵Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others, ³⁶as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long twenty-five cubits wide.

Bible Verse Review
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the chambers: Ezekiel 40:12, Ezekiel 41:10, Ezekiel 41:11, 1 Kings 6:8

where: This place, where the legs and entrails of the sacrifices, especially of the burnt offerings, were washed, was just within the portico of the north entrance to the inner court, or court of the priests. An allusion to this is most probably made by the inspired apostle when writing his Epistle to the Hebrews - Hebrews 10:22. "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 8:21, Hebrews 10:22

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 4:6 - such things as they offered for the burnt offering

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the chambers, and the entries thereof, were by the posts of the gates,.... Of the north gate; the plural for the singular; for not at the other gates, only at the north gate, were the sacrifices slain and washed; as under the law, only on the north side of the altar, Leviticus 1:11, now, by the posts of this gate, or at the entrance of it on one side,

stood a cell or chamber, and a door into it o, as the words may be rendered; for they are singular in the text:

where they washed the burnt offering; its legs and inwards, Leviticus 1:9, according to the law, there were lavers in Solomon's temple, to wash the sacrifices in, 2 Chronicles 4:6, but there was no such cell or chamber there for such a purpose as here: and as this refers to Gospel times, and to the church in the latter day, no legal sacrifice can be intended here, which are all abolished; but this must be mystically and spiritually understood, and designs no other than the sacrifice of Christ, a sweet smelling savour to God: that this kind of offering was typical of the sacrifice of Christ is clear from Hebrews 13:11, which whether of the herd, a bullock, represented Christ in his strength and laboriousness; or of the flock, and was either a sheep, an emblem of the innocence and patience of Christ; or a goat, which pointed him out as in the likeness of sinful flesh, traduced as a sinner, and made so by imputation; or of fowls, turtle doves, denoting his meekness and modesty; and all without spot or blemish signified the purity of his, nature and life; and these being burnt with fire were expressive of the pain and shame he endured when he bore our sins, and the wrath of God was poured on him as fire; the washing of the burnt offering denotes the purity of Christ's sacrifice, being offered up without spot. Some, as Polanus, have thought the ordinance of baptism is here designed, as the Lord's supper is by the tables next mentioned; and it is a note of Starchius upon the passage, that,

"he who is washed in the divine laver may be regaled with the heavenly feast.''

o ולשכהופתחה "et cubiculum, et ostium ejus", Pagninus, Montanus; "caeterum fuit cella, et ostium ejus", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The chambers - Render it: and chambers, not yet described. They were north of the altar, by the “posts” or pillars in front and along the sides of the gate-building. There were several gates in the gate-building.