Ezekiel 40:8

Complete Jewish Bible

He measured the gate's entranceway facing the house at ten-and-a-half feet.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Next he measured the gate’s portico;

Hebrew Names Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

King James Version
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

English Standard Version
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed.

New American Standard Bible
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

New Century Version
Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.

Amplified Bible
He also measured the porch of the gate facing inward [toward the temple of the LORD], one rod.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He measured also the porche of the gate within with one reede.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

Berean Standard Bible
Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;

Contemporary English Version
at the end of the passageway. The man measured this room: It was thirteen feet from the doorway to the opposite wall, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was three feet.

Darby Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then he measured the porch.

George Lamsa Translation
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Good News Translation
He measured this room and found it was 14 feet deep. It formed that end of the gateway which was nearest the Temple, and at its far end the walls were 4 feet thick.

Lexham English Bible
And then he measured the portico of the gate on the inside as one reed.

Literal Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He measured also the porche of the ynnermer dore, which conteyned a meterodde.

American Standard Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Bible in Basic English
And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

King James Version (1611)
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He measured also the porche of the gate within one cane.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.

English Revised Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

World English Bible
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he mat the lyntil of the yate bisidis the porche of the yate with ynne, bi o rehed.

Update Bible Version
He measured also the porch of the gate,

Webster's Bible Translation
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

New English Translation
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

New King James Version
He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate, one rod.

New Living Translation
He also measured the entry room of the gateway.

New Life Bible
Then he showed me with his stick that the porch of the inside gate was one-tenth stick wide.

New Revised Standard
Then he measured the inner vestibule of the gateway, one cubit.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then measured he the porch of the gate inwards, one read.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, was one reed.

Revised Standard Version
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits;

Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the porch of the gate from within one reed,

THE MESSAGE
He measured the inside porch of the gate complex: twelve feet deep, flanked by pillars three feet thick. The porch opened onto the Temple courtyard.

Contextual Overview

⁵ There was a wall surrounding the house. The man had in his hand a measuring rod six cubits long [ten-and-a-half feet], each cubit [twenty-one inches] being a normal cubit [eighteen inches] plus a handbreadth [three inches]. He measured the wall's width at ten-and-a-half feet and its height ten-and-a-half feet. ⁶ He went to the east gate, climbed its steps and measured one of the gate's doorposts at ten-and-a-half feet wide and the other one the same. ⁷ There were guardrooms, each ten-and-a-half feet square; the distance between the guardrooms was eight-and-three-quarters feet. The threshold of the gate adjoining the gate's entranceway facing the house measured ten-and-a-half feet. ⁸ He measured the gate's entranceway facing the house at ten-and-a-half feet. ⁹ Then he measured the gate's entranceway itself, fourteen feet, and its supports, three-and-a-half feet; the gate's entranceway was on the side facing the house. ¹⁰ There were three guardrooms on each side of the east gate, all the same size; and on each side the supports [between the guardrooms] were also all the same size. ¹¹ He measured the width of the opening to the gateway at seventeen-and-a-half feet and the width of the passage through the gateway at twenty-two-and-three-quarters feet. ¹² There was a partition in front of the guardrooms [on one side] twenty-one inches [wide] and a partition on the other side twenty-one inches [wide], with the guardrooms themselves being ten-and-a-half feet square. ¹³ He measured [inside] the gate from the back wall of one guardroom to the back wall of the other a distance of forty-three-and-three-quarters feet, the openings [to the guardrooms] being opposite each other. ¹⁴ He made the posts 105 feet, likewise the posts of the other gates around the courtyard.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:11 - the porch Jeremiah 31:39 - General Ezekiel 40:21 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 40:10
and the vine had three branches. The branches budded, then it suddenly began to blossom, and finally clusters of ripe grapes appeared.

Genesis 40:11
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, so I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup to Pharaoh."

Genesis 40:15
For the truth is that I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing wrong that would justify putting me in this dungeon."

Genesis 40:16
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Yosef, "I too saw in my dream: there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Psalms 25:14
Adonai relates intimately with those who fear him; he makes them know his covenant.

Isaiah 8:19
So when they tell you to consult those squeaking, squawking mediums and fortune-tellers; [you are to answer], "Shouldn't a people seek their God? Must the living ask the dead

Daniel 2:11
The king is asking a difficult thing; nobody but the gods could tell this to your majesty, and they don't live with mere mortals."

Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven who unlocks mysteries, and he has revealed to King N'vukhadnetzar what will happen in the acharit-hayamim. Here are your dream and the visions you had in your head when you were in bed.

Daniel 2:47
To Dani'el the king said, "Your God is indeed the God of gods, the Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret."

Daniel 4:8
The tree grew and became strong until its crown reached the sky, and it could be seen from anywhere on earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. This was either the measure of the breadth of the porch between the opposite chambers on both sides; or rather of the length of that space, which was between the third little chamber and the last gate; and such a space must be supposed to be between the first gate and the first little chamber, which space were three yards and a half; which shows how spacious the churches of Christ will be, and how exactly measured.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The east gate-building. See Plan III.

Ezekiel 40:6

Stairs - Seven in number Ezekiel 40:22. Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ft.). The measurements are being taken from East to west, i. e., in depth.

Ezekiel 40:7

Every little chamber - The guard-chambers (a) for the use of the Levites who kept watch in the temple.

The threshold of the gate by the porch - The second threshold in the easternmost gate-way (c).

Porch - Hebrew אולם 'ûlâm; the Septuagint: αἰλάμ ailam; Vulgate: vestibulum. The word probably means porch or portico, connected with “ail” post or pillar.

Ezekiel 40:9

The porch is now measured from north to south in “wide.” “The breadth of the entry of the gate” was “ten cubits,” made up of the “eight cubits,” with “a cubit” for “a post” or pillar on each side Ezekiel 40:11.

Posts - A projection like a ram’s horn; in architecture, a column projecting from the wall with its base, shaft, and capital, or it may be the “base” only Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:49. Here “post” represents the lower part of the column. and the dimensions given are those of the section of the base.

Ezekiel 40:10

In front of each guard-chamber were columns, whose “posts” (bases) were each one cubit square.

Ezekiel 40:11

The length of the gate - The length of the gateway (including the porch, E.) from the court to the uncovered space. The threshold was “six cubits,” and the porch “six.” In addition one cubit was probably allowed in front of the porch, as before the porch of the temple itself Ezekiel 40:49.

Ezekiel 40:13

This measurement is across the gate-building from north to south. The breadth of the gate-building was exactly half its length Ezekiel 40:15.

Ezekiel 40:14

Posts of threescore cubits - Sixty cubits were the length of a series of columns. This gives us another feature of the gate-building. Between the porch (E) and the two most western guard-chambers was a space of five cubits (through which the road passed), forming a kind of hall with columns along the sides. This hall is called the “arches” Ezekiel 40:16. A hall of the same dimensions was between the boundary wall and eastern guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:31. It is probable that in one of these halls (that of the eastern gateway of the inner court) the prince “ate bread” on solemn festivals Ezekiel 44:3.

Unto the post of the court round about the gate - This hall or colonnade extended the whole breadth of the building to the pavement (Ezekiel 40:18, H, Plan II). Outside the building on the pavement was a series of pillars.

Ezekiel 40:15

The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:

Thickness of boundary wall	6 cubits
Hall of the entrance	5 cubits
Three guard-chambers (6 cubits)	18 cubits
Spaces between guard-chambers	10 cubits
Hall of the porch	5 cubits
The porch	6 cubits
Total	50 cubits

Ezekiel 40:16

The “narrow” (closed and (?)latticed “windows” lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the “post” stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.