Ezekiel 42:4

Contemporary English Version

with doors that opened toward the north, and in front of them was a walkway seventeen feet wide and one hundred seventy feet long.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In front of the chambers was a walkway toward the inside, 17½ feet wide and 175 feet long, and their entrances were on the north.

Hebrew Names Version
Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

King James Version
And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

English Standard Version
And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.

New American Standard Bible
In front of the chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

New Century Version
There was a path on the north side of the rooms, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide and one hundred seventy-five feet long. Doors led into the rooms from this path.

Amplified Bible
In front of the [attached] chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits long; and their entrances were on the north.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And before the chambers was a gallery of ten cubites wide, and within was a way of one cubite, and their doores towarde the North.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

Legacy Standard Bible
Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

Berean Standard Bible
In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

Complete Jewish Bible
In front of the [block of] rooms was a walkway seventeen-and-a-half feet wide and a path twenty-one inches [wide]; their doors faced north.

Darby Translation
and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.

Easy-to-Read Version
There was a path 10 cubits wide and 100 cubits long running along the south side of the building, even though the entrance was on the north side.

George Lamsa Translation
And before the rooms was a passage ten cubits broad, and its length a hundred cubits; and the door of the passage was toward the north.

Good News Translation
Along the north side of this building was a passageway 16 feet wide and 168 feet long, with entrances on that side.

Lexham English Bible
And in front of the chambers was a passageway ten cubits in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit, and their doorways were to the north.

Literal Translation
And before the rooms was a walk ten cubits wide, to the inside, a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And before this chabre there was a walkinge place of x. cubites wyde, and within was a waye of one cubite wyde, and their dores towarde the north.

American Standard Version
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Bible in Basic English
And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

King James Version (1611)
And before the chambers was a walke of ten cubites breadth inward, a way of one cubite, and their doores toward the North.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And before the chambers, ther was a walking place of ten cubites wyde inwarde, the way of one cubite: and their doores towarde the north.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

English Revised Version
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

World English Bible
Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And bifor the tresories was a walkyng of ten cubitis of breede, biholdynge to the ynnere thingis of the weie of o cubit. And the doris of tho to the north,

Update Bible Version
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' width, and inward a passage of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Webster's Bible Translation
And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors towards the north.

New English Translation
In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, and their entrances were on the north.

New King James Version
In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

New Living Translation
Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1⁄2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north.

New Life Bible
In front of the rooms was an inside walkway as wide as ten cubits and as long as 100 cubits. Their doors were on the north.

New Revised Standard
In front of the chambers was a passage on the inner side, ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits deep, and its entrances were on the north.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and before the chambers, was a walk ten cubits in breadth inward, a way of one cubit, - and their entrances were to the north.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.

Revised Standard Version
And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.

Young's Literal Translation
And at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the north.

Contextual Overview

¹After the man and I left the temple and walked back to the outer courtyard, he showed me a set of rooms on the north side of the west building. This set of rooms was one hundred seventy feet long and eighty-five feet wide. ³ On one side of them was the thirty-four feet of open space that ran alongside the temple, and on the other side was the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard. The rooms were arranged in three levels ⁴ with doors that opened toward the north, and in front of them was a walkway seventeen feet wide and one hundred seventy feet long. ⁵ The rooms on the top level were narrower than those on the middle level, and the rooms on the middle level were narrower than those on the bottom level. ⁶ The rooms on the bottom level supported those on the two upper levels, and so these rooms did not have columns like other buildings in the courtyard. ⁷To the north was a privacy wall eighty-five feet long, ⁹and at the east end of this wall was the door leading from the courtyard to these rooms. There was also a set of rooms on the south side of the west building. ¹¹ These rooms were exactly like those on the north side, and they also had a walkway in front of them. ¹² The door to these rooms was at the east end of the wall that stood in front of them. ¹³ The man then said to me: These rooms on the north and south sides of the temple are the sacred rooms where the Lord 's priests will eat the most holy offerings. These offerings include the grain sacrifices, the sacrifices for sin, and the sacrifices to make things right.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: These seems to have been two rows of these chambers, and a walk between of ten cubits in width; with an entrance into it from the chambers, of one cubit in width.

a walk: Ezekiel 42:11

a way: Matthew 7:14, Luke 13:24

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 40:17 - thirty Ezekiel 41:9 - that which Ezekiel 41:11 - and the breadth

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
The Lord said, "These people now know the difference between right and wrong, just as we do. But they must not be allowed to eat fruit from the tree that lets them live forever."

Genesis 42:1
When Jacob found out there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why are you just sitting here, staring at one another?

Genesis 42:2
I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Now go down and buy some, so we won't starve to death."

Genesis 42:16
Choose one of you to go after your brother, while the rest of you stay here in jail. That will show whether you are telling the truth. But if you are lying, I swear by the life of the king that you are spies!

Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, one of you must stay here in jail, and the rest of you can take the grain back to your starving families.

Genesis 42:20
But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then I'll know that you are telling the truth, and you won't be put to death. Joseph's brothers agreed

Genesis 42:22
Reuben spoke up, "Didn't I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn't listen, and now we have to pay the price for killing him."

Genesis 42:27
When they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey, and right away he saw his moneybag.

Genesis 42:34
But bring your youngest brother to me, so I can be certain that you are honest men and not spies. After that, I'll let your other brother go free, and you can stay here and trade."

Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, "I won't let my son Benjamin go down to Egypt with the rest of you. His brother is already dead, and he is the only son I have left. I am an old man, and if anything happens to him on the way, I'll die from sorrow, and all of you will be to blame."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward,.... That is, within side, or between the two rows of chambers, there was a walk of this breadth, for those that lodged in the chambers to walk in for their pleasure and profit, and to converse with one another. Such who by these "chambers" understand places of retirement for private devotion, or the duties of the closet, which fit and prepare for public worship, as these chambers were near and in sight of the temple, so by this walk then Christian conference and conversation is intended; and shows, that the whole of religious time is not to be spent between the church and the chamber; but some part of it should be allotted for spiritual discourse, about gracious experiences, the truths of the Gospel, and the duties of religion; but as chambers design churches, this walk denotes the outward walk and conversation of the saints; which should be according to the rule of God's word, as becomes the Gospel, and worthy of the calling wherewith they are called. Starckius applies this to the decalogue or ten commandments, which is a broad way, Psalms 119:32 and the moral law, as in the hands of Christ, is a rule of walk and conversation to believers under the Gospel: and besides, there "was a way of one cubit"; which led into the chambers, and out of them into the broad walk: this is a narrow way, as Christ is said to be, Matthew 7:14 and whoever profess faith in him, and in this way enter into a Gospel church state, and into the kingdom of heaven, must be attended with much affliction and persecution, and pass through many tribulations; and there being both a broad walk and a narrow way, and these lying near one another, and a passage from the one to the other, may denote that the churches and people of God are sometimes in prosperity, and sometimes in adversity; one while they walk at liberty, as in a large place; and at other times in great straits and difficulties:

and their doors toward the north; that is, the doors of that row of chambers nearest the temple; these opened to the north into the walk of ten cubits; though one would think that the row opposite to them, their doors must be to the south, into the broad walk between them; unless this is to be understood of the doors that opened into the way of one cubit, and were to the north in both rows; but then the way of one cubit could not in both lead into the broad walk.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, In the front “of the chambers” was a gangway “of ten cubits” breadth (leading) “inward,” a path “of one cubit, and their doors toward the north.” The “gangway” had stairs to the upper stories, while along the north front of the building there was a kerb of one cubit, as before the guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:12, on which kerb the north doors (leading to the basement) opened. Others follow the Septuagint “And opposite the chambers a walk 10 cubits in width to 100 cubits in length.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 42:4. A walk of ten cubits' breadth inward — This seems to have been a sort of parapet.