Ezekiel 40:18

Good News Translation

which extended around the courtyard. This outer courtyard was at a lower level than the inner courtyard.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
which flanked the courtyard’s gates and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Hebrew Names Version
The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

King James Version
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

English Standard Version
And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.

New American Standard Bible
And the pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

New Century Version
The pavement ran alongside the gates and was as deep as the gates were wide. This was the lower pavement.

Amplified Bible
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the pauement was by the side of the gates ouer against the length of the gates, and the pauement was beneath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

Legacy Standard Bible
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

Berean Standard Bible
which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Contemporary English Version
This was known as the lower sidewalk, and it was eighty-five feet wide.

Complete Jewish Bible
The flooring was alongside the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates [from outside to inside], this lower flooring.

Darby Translation
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answering to the length of the gates, [namely] the lower pavement.

Easy-to-Read Version
The pavement was as wide as the gates were long. The pavement reached to the inside end of the gateway. This was the lower pavement.

George Lamsa Translation
And the steps by the side of the gates were opposite the stairway at the lower pavement.

Lexham English Bible
And the pavement flanked the side of the gates and all along the gates; this describes the lower pavement.

Literal Translation
And the pavement by the side of the gates to equal the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now the paued worke was a loge besyde the dores, and that was the lower paued worke.

American Standard Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Bible in Basic English
And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

King James Version (1611)
And the pauement by the side of the gates ouer against the length of the gates, was the lower pauement.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the pauement [was] by the side of the gates, ouer against the length of the gates: and the pauement [was] beneath.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the porticos were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.

English Revised Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

World English Bible
The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the pawment was bynethe in the front of the yatis, bi the lengthe of the yatis.

Update Bible Version
And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates [was] the lower pavement.

New English Translation
The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

New King James Version
The pavement was by the side of the gateways, corresponding to the length of the gateways; this was the lower pavement.

New Living Translation
This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement.

New Life Bible
The lower stone floor was beside the gates, and was as wide as the gates.

New Revised Standard
The pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the pavement, was against the side of the gates, answering to the length of the gates, - the lower pavement,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was lower.

Revised Standard Version
And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Young's Literal Translation
and the pavement unto the side of the gates over-against the length of the gates [is] the lower pavement;

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.

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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 42:3 - the pavement

Cross-References

Genesis 40:12
Joseph said, "This is what it means: the three branches are three days.

Genesis 41:26
The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven full heads of grain are also seven years; they have the same meaning.

1 Corinthians 10:4
and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.

1 Corinthians 11:24
gave thanks to God, broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the pavement by the sides of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. That is, this pavement, which went along by every gate, and answered the length of them, and what appertained to them, east, west, north, and south, was either lower than the pavement in the inward court, adjoining to this, to which there was an ascent by steps; or the middle part of this pavement rose up in a convex form, and on all sides there was a declivity; by which means all filth was washed away, and it was kept clean, and always fit to walk on. This distinction of a higher and lower pavement, whether on one account or another, may point out; the one, the believer's walk by faith on Christ; and the other, his walk in the ordinances of Christ, and in all becoming conversation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “outward” or outer “court” (o, Plan II) corresponds to what was in Herod’s temple the court of Women, into which all Jews, but not Gentiles were admitted.

Ezekiel 40:17

Chambers - (I) See Jeremiah 35:2.

A pavement - (H) Of mosaic work 2 Chronicles 7:3; Esther 1:6 which formed a border of forty-four cubits. On each side of the court in which there were gates, i. e., on east, north, and south. It was called the “lower pavement” to distinguish it from the pavement of the inner court; the outer court being lower than the inner Ezekiel 40:31.

Ezekiel 40:19

There were eastern, northern, and southern gates of entrance from the outer to the inner court (B).

Without - Not as in the margin, but looking outward, i. e., the outward front of the inner gate toward the outer court.