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Ezekiel 42:8

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- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Gallery;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the great hall were 175 feet long.
Hebrew Names Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
King James Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
English Standard Version
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.
New American Standard Bible
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a hundred cubits.
New Century Version
The row of rooms along the outer courtyard was eighty-seven and one-half feet long, and the rooms that faced the Temple were about one hundred seventy-five feet long.
Amplified Bible
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, while the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court, was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was one hundred cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet, whereas [the length of] the side facing the sanctuary was 175 feet.
Darby Translation
for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.
Easy-to-Read Version
The row of rooms that ran along the outer courtyard was 50 cubits long, although the total length of the building, as on the Temple side, was 100 cubits long.
George Lamsa Translation
For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and those before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Lexham English Bible
For the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and look! The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred cubits.
Literal Translation
For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And, behold, in the face of the temple was a hundred cubits.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the legth of ye vttemost chambers in the fore courte was L. cubites also: but the length therof before the temple was an C. cubites.
American Standard Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Bible in Basic English
For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
King James Version (1611)
For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fyftie cubites: and lo, before the temple was a hundred cubites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.
English Revised Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
World English Bible
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the lengthe of the tresories of the outermore halle was of fifti cubitis, and the lengthe bifor the face of the temple was of an hundrid cubitis.
Update Bible Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, look, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the length of the chambers that [were] in the outer court [was] fifty cubits: and lo, before the temple [were] a hundred cubits.
New English Translation
For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet long.
New King James Version
The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits.
New Living Translation
This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1⁄2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet.
New Life Bible
The rooms next to the outer open space were as long as fifty cubits, and those over from the Lord's house were as long as 100 cubits.
New Revised Standard
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were one hundred cubits long.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the length of the chambers which pertained to the outer court was fifty cubits, - and lo! in front of the temple a hundred cubits,
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.
Revised Standard Version
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were a hundred cubits long.
Young's Literal Translation
for the length of the chambers that [are] to the outer court [is] fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple a hundred cubits.

Contextual Overview

1 Then the man took me into the outer courtyard and led me to a building on the north side of the Temple, not far from the building at the west end of the Temple. 2 This building was 168 feet long and 84 feet wide. 3 On one side it faced the space 34 feet wide which was alongside the Temple, and on the other side it faced the pavement of the outer courtyard. It was built on three levels, each one set further back than the one below it. 4 Along the north side of this building was a passageway 16 feet wide and 168 feet long, with entrances on that side. 5 The rooms at the upper level of the building were narrower than those at the middle and lower levels because they were set further back. 6 The rooms at all three levels were on terraces and were not supported by columns like the other buildings in the courtyard. 7At the lower level the outer wall of the building was solid for 84 feet, half its length; and there were rooms in the remaining 84 feet. At the top level there were rooms in the entire length of the building. 9Below these rooms at the east end of the building, where the wall of the courtyard began, there was an entrance into the outer courtyard. At the south side of the Temple there was an identical building not far from the building at the west end of the Temple. 11 In front of the rooms there was a passageway just like the one on the north side. It had the same measurements, the same design, and the same kind of entrances. 12 There was a door under the rooms on the south side of the building, at the east end where the wall began.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: Passing from the north to the south side of the temple - Ezekiel 42:11, Ezekiel 42:12, the prophet was shewn that the space of ground, which was before the temple on the east, measured 100 cubits. Ezekiel 42:8

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:18 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 37:2
and this is the story of Jacob's family. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, took care of the sheep and goats with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's concubines. He brought bad reports to his father about what his brothers were doing.
Luke 24:16
they saw him, but somehow did not recognize him.
John 20:14
Then she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it was Jesus.
John 21:4
As the sun was rising, Jesus stood at the water's edge, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits,.... Which was the reason why the wall was of the same length, that it might be answerable to them; here length is put for breadth; see Ezekiel 42:2, this measure was from the north to south, as Lipman x observes:

and lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits; as the breadth of the wall and chambers was fifty, so in length, as they were over against the temple, they were an hundred cubits, as in Ezekiel 42:2, unless the account is to be taken thus; that the row of chambers towards the north were fifty cubits long, and the row towards the south over against the other was fifty cubits, and so both made a hundred; to which sense is the Septuagint version,

"for the length of the chambers that look to the outward court was fifty cubits, and those (that is, those that looked to the temple, or were before that) answered to them, the whole a hundred cubits;''

that is, both rows made a hundred cubits; but rather, as Lipman y says, the chambers contained from east to west a hundred cubits.

x Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 71. y Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The length - From north to south.

Before the temple - This describes their position in a general way; more precisely they lay over against partly the “separate place” and partly the “temple-court” Ezekiel 42:1.


 
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