Ezekiel 40:15

Easy-to-Read Version

From the inside edge of the outer gate to the far end of the porch was 50 cubits.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the gate’s portico on the inside was 87½ feet.

Hebrew Names Version
[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

King James Version
And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

English Standard Version
From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

New American Standard Bible
And from the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

New Century Version
From the front of the outer side of the gateway to the front of the porch of the inner side of the gateway was eighty-seven and one-half feet.

Amplified Bible
From the front of the entrance gate [on the outside] to the front of the inner porch (portico) of the gate [the distance] was fifty cubits.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And vpon the forefront of the entry of the gate vnto the forefront of the porch of the gate within were fiftie cubites.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

Legacy Standard Bible
From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

Berean Standard Bible
And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, he measured the total length of the passageway, from the outer wall to the entrance room, and it was eighty-five feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
The distance along the passage from the outer opening of the gateway to the far side of the entranceway at the inner end of the gateway was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.

Darby Translation
And from the front of the gate of the entrance unto the front of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

George Lamsa Translation
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the portico of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

Good News Translation
The total length of the gateway from the outside wall of the gate to the far side of the last room was 84 feet.

Lexham English Bible
And from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

Literal Translation
And on the face of the entrance gate, to the face of the porch of the inner gate, was fifty cubits;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Before the inwarde parte vnto the fore entre of the ynnermer dore, were fiftie cubites.

American Standard Version
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Bible in Basic English
And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

King James Version (1611)
And from the face of the gate of the entrance, vnto the face of the porch of the inner gate, were fiftie cubites.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And from the forefront of the entrie of the gate, vnto the forefront of the gate within [were] fiftie cubites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

English Revised Version
And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

World English Bible
[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and bifor the face of the yate that stretchith forth til to the face of the porche of the ynner yate, he mat fifti cubitis.

Update Bible Version
And [from] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

Webster's Bible Translation
And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate [were] fifty cubits.

New English Translation
From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.

New King James Version
From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

New Living Translation
The full length of the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet from one end to the other.

New Life Bible
It was fifteen cubits from the front of the outer gate to the front of the porch of the inner gate.

New Revised Standard
From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and from e the face of the gate outwards, unto the face of the porch of the inner gate, was fifty cubits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And before the face of the gate which reached even to the face of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits.

Revised Standard Version
From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
and by the front of the gate of the entrance, by the front of the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits;

THE MESSAGE
The distance from the entrance of the gate complex to the far end of the porch was seventy-five feet.

Contextual Overview

⁵ I saw a wall that went all the way around the outside of the Temple. In the man's hand there was a ruler for measuring things. It was 6 cubits long using the long measurement, so the man measured the thickness of the wall. It was one ruler thick. He measured the height of the wall. It was one ruler tall. ⁶ Then the man went to the east gate. He walked up its steps and measured the opening for the gate. It was one ruler wide. ⁷ The guardrooms were one ruler long and one ruler wide. The walls between the rooms were 5 cubits thick. The opening by the porch at the end of the gateway that faced the Temple was also one ruler wide. ⁸ Then he measured the porch. ⁹ It was 8 cubits long. He measured the walls on either side of the gate. Each side wall was 2 cubits wide. The porch was at the end of the gateway that faced the Temple. ¹⁰ There were three little guardrooms on each side of the gateway. All these rooms and their side walls measured the same. ¹¹ The man measured the entrance to the gateway. It was 10 cubits wide and 13 cubits long. ¹² There was a low wall in front of each room. That wall was 1 cubit tall and 1 cubit thick. The rooms were square. Each wall was 6 cubits long. ¹³ The man measured the gateway from the outside edge of the roof of one room to the outside edge of the roof of the opposite room. It was 25 cubits. Each door was directly opposite the other door. ¹⁴ He measured the faces of all the side walls, including the side walls on either side of the porch at the courtyard. The total was 60 cubits.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the face of the gate: This was the whole length of the porch, from the outward front - Ezekiel 41:21, Ezekiel 41:25, to the inner side which looks into the first court - Ezekiel 40:17, including the thickness of the walls - Ezekiel 40:6, chambers - Ezekiel 40:7, and spaces between them. Ezekiel 40:15

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:11 - the porch Ezekiel 40:21 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 14:13
One of the men who had escaped went to Abram the Hebrew and told him what happened. Abram was camped near the trees of Mamre the Amorite. Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner had made an agreement to help each other, and they had also signed an agreement to help Abram.

Genesis 39:20
So Potiphar put Joseph into the prison where the king's enemies were held, and that is where Joseph remained.

Genesis 40:3
so he put them in the same prison as Joseph. Potiphar, the commander of Pharaoh's guards, was in charge of this prison.

Genesis 40:4
The commander put the two prisoners under Joseph's care. The two men continued to stay in prison for some time.

Genesis 40:8
The two men answered, "We both had dreams last night, but we don't understand what we dreamed. There is no one to explain the dreams to us." Joseph said to them, "God is the only one who can understand and explain dreams. So I beg you, tell me your dreams."

Genesis 40:10
On the vine there were three branches. I watched the branches grow flowers and then become grapes.

Genesis 40:11
I was holding Pharaoh's cup, so I took the grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I gave the cup to Pharaoh."

Genesis 40:12
Then Joseph said, "I will explain the dream to you. The three branches mean three days.

Genesis 40:17
In the top basket there were all kinds of baked food for the king, but birds were eating this food."

Genesis 40:18
Joseph answered, "I will tell you what the dream means. The three baskets mean three days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And from the face of the gate of the entrance,.... That is, from the outward gate as you went into the porch, and was to the east, so called from people's passing and repassing b in it; so Jarchi takes it to be the eastern gate; the Targum calls it the middle gate:

unto the face of the porch of the inner gate; which opened at the other end of the porch, into the outward court, and was to the west: from gate to gate

were fifty cubits; as he measured the breadth of the porch before,

Ezekiel 40:13, here the length; there were three chambers six cubits long, which made eighteen; and between each chamber were five cubits, which were ten cubits; and the space between the chambers and the gates at each end were six cubits each; Ezekiel 40:8, which make twelve more; and then allow ten cubits for the thickness of both walls of each gate, and there will be fifty cubits, or twenty nine yards and half a foot.

b Vid. R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 9. 1.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 40:15. Fifty cubits. — The length of the building. See MMMMM in the plan. Ezekiel 48:35.