Ezekiel 40:11

Good News Translation

Next, the man measured the width of the passageway in the gateway. It was 22 feet altogether, and the space between the open gates was 16 feet.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he measured the width of the gate’s entrance; it was 17½ feet, while the width of the gate was 22¾ feet.

Hebrew Names Version
He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

King James Version
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

English Standard Version
Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

New American Standard Bible
And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

New Century Version
The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide. The width of the gate was about twenty-three feet.

Amplified Bible
And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate ten cubites, and the height of the gate thirteene cubites.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Berean Standard Bible
And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

Contemporary English Version
Next, the man measured the width of the passageway, and it was twenty-two feet, but the two doors of the gate were only sixteen feet wide.

Complete Jewish Bible
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.

Darby Translation
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Easy-to-Read Version
The man measured the entrance to the gateway. It was 10 cubits wide and 13 cubits long.

George Lamsa Translation
And he measured the breadth of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Lexham English Bible
And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubits and the length of the gateway was thirteen cubits.

Literal Translation
And he measured the breadth of the gate opening, ten cubits; the length of the gate was thirteen cubits.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After this, he measured the wydenesse of the dore: which was x cubites, & the heyth of the dore xiij cubites.

American Standard Version
And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Bible in Basic English
And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

King James Version (1611)
And hee measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteene cubites.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this, he measured the breadth of the entrie of the gate ten cubites, and the heyght of the gate thirteene cubites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits.

English Revised Version
And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate thirteen cubits;

World English Bible
He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he mat the breede of the lyntel of the yate of ten cubitis, and the lengthe of the yate of threttene cubitis.

Update Bible Version
And he measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

New English Translation
He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.

New King James Version
He measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

New Living Translation
The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17 1⁄2 feet wide at the opening and 22 3⁄4 feet wide in the gateway passage.

New Life Bible
Then he showed me that the opening of the gateway was ten cubits wide and thirteen cubits long.

New Revised Standard
Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the width of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then measured he the breadth of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits - the length of the gate, thirteen cubits,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate ten cubits: and the length of the gate thirteen cubits:

Revised Standard Version
Then he measured the breadth of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway, thirteen cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the breadth of the opening of the gate ten cubits, the length of the gate thirteen cubits;

THE MESSAGE
He measured the outside entrance to the gate complex: fifteen feet wide and nineteen and a half feet deep.

Contextual Overview

⁵ What I saw was the Temple, and there was a wall around it. The man took his measuring rod, which was 10 feet long, and measured the wall. It was 10 feet high and 10 feet thick. ⁶ Then he went to the gateway that faced east. He went up the steps, and at the top he measured the entrance; it was 10 feet deep. ⁷ Beyond it there was a passageway, which had three guardrooms on each side. Each of the rooms was square, 10 feet on each side, and the walls between them were 8 feet thick. Beyond the guardrooms there was a passageway 10 feet long that led to an entrance room which faced the Temple. ⁸He 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. ¹⁰ (These guardrooms on each side of the passageway were all the same size, and the walls between them were all of the same thickness.) ¹¹ Next, the man measured the width of the passageway in the gateway. It was 22 feet altogether, and the space between the open gates was 16 feet. ¹² In front of each of the guardrooms there was a low wall 20 inches high and 20 inches thick. (The rooms were 10 feet square.) ¹³ Then he measured the distance from the back wall of one room to the back wall of the room across the passageway from it, and it was 42 feet. ¹⁴ The room at the far end led out to a courtyard. He measured that room and found it was 34 feet wide. ¹⁵ The total length of the gateway from the outside wall of the gate to the far side of the last room was 84 feet.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 40:13 - the gate

Cross-References

Genesis 40:21
He restored the wine steward to his former position,

Genesis 49:11
He ties his young donkey to a grapevine, To the very best of the vines. He washes his clothes in blood-red wine.

Leviticus 10:9
"You and your sons are not to enter the Tent of my presence after drinking wine or beer; if you do, you will die. This is a law to be kept by all your descendants.

1 Kings 10:5
She saw the food that was served at his table, the living quarters for his officials, the organization of his palace staff and the uniforms they wore, the servants who waited on him at feasts, and the sacrifices he offered in the Temple. It left her breathless and amazed.

2 Chronicles 9:4
She saw the food that was served at his table, the living quarters for his officials, the organization of his palace staff and the uniforms they wore, the clothing of the servants who waited on him at feasts, and the sacrifices he offered in the Temple. It left her breathless and amazed.

Proverbs 3:10
If you do, your barns will be filled with grain, and you will have too much wine to store it all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits,.... Five yards, two feet and a half: this was the measure of the eastern gate, whether outward or inward; for they were both of a measure, as appears from the thresholds being alike:

and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; that is, the height of it; it was seven yards and three inches high; a prodigious gate this! a fit emblem of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the open door, the gate of life, through which whoever enters shall be saved; and there is room for multitudes to enter.

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.