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Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel 41:9

The outside walls of the storage rooms were eight feet thick; there was nothing between these walls

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Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cherub;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8¾ feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple
Hebrew Names Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
King James Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
English Standard Version
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the
New American Standard Bible
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple
New Century Version
The outer wall of the side rooms was about nine feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms of the Temple
Amplified Bible
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple
Geneva Bible (1587)
The thickenesse of the wall which was for the chamber without, was fiue cubites, and that which remained, was the place of the chambers that were within.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple
Legacy Standard Bible
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the house
Berean Standard Bible
The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
Complete Jewish Bible
The outer wall of the side-rooms was eight-and-three-quarters feet thick [at ground level], likewise the empty space left [between] the structure containing the side-rooms [and the house itself also measured eight-and-three quarters feet wide].
Darby Translation
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.
Easy-to-Read Version
The outer wall of the side rooms was 5 cubits thick. There was an open area between the side rooms of the Temple
George Lamsa Translation
The thickness of the outer wall which was for the side rooms was five cubits; and from within it was five cubits.
Lexham English Bible
The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits, and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple
Literal Translation
The width of the wall which was for the side room to the outside was five cubits, and that which was left between the side rooms that were of the house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The thicknesse of the syde wall without, conteyned fyue cubites, & so dyd ye outwall of the chabers in ye house.
American Standard Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
Bible in Basic English
The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The breadth of the outer wall which belonged to the side-chambers was five cubits; and so that which was left by the structure of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
King James Version (1611)
The thicknesse of the wall which was for the side chamber without, was fiue cubites, and that which was left, was the place of the side-chambers that were within.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The thickenesse of the wall which was for the chamber without [was] fiue cubites, and that whiche remayned was the place of the chambers that were within.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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,
English Revised Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
World English Bible
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the breede by the wal of the side with outforth, of fyue cubitis; and the ynnere hous was in the sidis of the hous.
Update Bible Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits, and that which was left of the structure of the side rooms which belonged to the house.
Webster's Bible Translation
The thickness of the wall, which [was] for the side-chamber without, [was] five cubits: and [that] which [was] left [was] the place of the side-chambers that [were] within.
New English Translation
The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple
New King James Version
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the temple.
New Living Translation
The outer wall of the Temple's side rooms was 8 3⁄4 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms
New Life Bible
The width of the outside wall of the side rooms was five cubits. But the open space between the side rooms
New Revised Standard
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and the free space between the side chambers of the temple
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The breadth of the wall which pertained to the side-chamber on the outside was five cubits,- and that which was left vacant between the side-chambers which pertained to the house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the thickness of the wall for the side chamber without, which was five cubits: and the inner house was within the side chambers of the house,
Revised Standard Version
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and the part of the platform which was left free was five cubits. Between the platform of the temple and the
Young's Literal Translation
The breadth of the wall that [is] to the side-chamber at the outside [is] five cubits; and that which is left [is] the place of the side-chambers that [are] to the house.

Contextual Overview

1 Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: It was ten feet wide, 2 seventeen feet long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was eight feet. The main room itself was sixty-eight feet by thirty-four feet. 3Then the man walked to the far end of the temple's main room and said, "Beyond this doorway is the most holy place." He first measured the doorway: It was three feet wide, ten feet long, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was twelve feet. Then he measured the most holy place, and it was thirty-four feet square. 5 The man measured the wall of the temple, and it was ten feet thick. Storage rooms seven feet wide were built against the outside of the wall. 6 There were three levels of rooms, with thirty rooms on each level, and they rested on ledges that were attached to the temple walls, so that nothing was built into the walls. 7 The walls of the temple were thicker at the bottom than at the top, which meant that the storage rooms on the top level were wider than those on the bottom level. Steps led from the bottom level, through the middle level, and into the top level. 8 The temple rested on a stone base ten feet high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms. 9 The outside walls of the storage rooms were eight feet thick; there was nothing between these walls 10 and the nearest buildings thirty-four feet away. 11 One door led into the storage rooms on the north side of the temple, and another door led to those on the south side. The stone base extended eight feet beyond the outside wall of the storage rooms.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

was five: Ezekiel 41:5

that which: This appears to have been a walk, or gallery of communication between the chambers, five cubits broad, into which the doors opened. Ezekiel 41:11, Ezekiel 42:1, Ezekiel 42:4

Cross-References

Genesis 40:14
But when these good things happen, please don't forget to tell the king about me, so I can get out of this place.
Genesis 40:23
but the king's personal servant completely forgot about Joseph.
Genesis 41:1
Two years later the king of Egypt dreamed he was standing beside the Nile River.
Genesis 41:3
Then seven ugly, skinny cows came up out of the river and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers without, was five cubits,.... This is the outward wall of the chambers, north and south, which was five cubits thick, made of stone;

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and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within; this was a void space, not built upon, which was before the chambers that stood within it; and was a space to walk in for those that dwelt in the chambers, or to go in from chamber to chamber; which also was five cubits in breadth, as appears from the next verse. This may denote the communion of churches, and the members of them one with another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And that which was left - i. e., the passage (F) between the side-chambers and the temple-wall, was five cubits Ezekiel 41:11.

The place of the side chambers that were within - Within the side-chambers which belong to the house. The seer is giving first the height of the side-chambers Ezekiel 41:8, and then the breadth, from the outside of the wall of these chambers to the temple-wall.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 41:9. The thickness of the wall — See LLL in the plan. Ezekiel 48:35.

The place of the side chambers — A walk, or gallery of communication along the chambers, five cubits broad, Ezekiel 41:11.


 
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