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JPS Old Testament

Ezekiel 42:19

He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he turned to the west side
Hebrew Names Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
King James Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
English Standard Version
Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.
New American Standard Bible
He turned to the west side and measured five hundred rods with the measuring rod.
New Century Version
He went around to the west side; it measured eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
Amplified Bible
He turned about to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He turned about also to the West side, and measured fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reede.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Legacy Standard Bible
He turned to the west side and measured 500 reeds with the measuring reed.
Berean Standard Bible
And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
Complete Jewish Bible
He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet with the measuring rod.
Darby Translation
He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.
Easy-to-Read Version
He went around to the west side and measured it. It was 500 cubits long.
George Lamsa Translation
He measured the west side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Lexham English Bible
He went around the west side and he measured five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement.
Literal Translation
He turned to the west side, measuring five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the west (which he measured) conteyned ether of them v.C. meteroddes.
American Standard Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Bible in Basic English
And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
King James Version (1611)
Hee turned about to the West side, and measured fiue hundreth reedes with the measuring reed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He turned about [also] to the west side, and measured fiue hundred canes, by the measuring cane.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
English Revised Version
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
World English Bible
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And at the west wynd he mat fyue hundrid rehedis, with the rehed of mesure.
Update Bible Version
And he turned about to the west side: he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Webster's Bible Translation
He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
New English Translation
He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring stick.
New King James Version
He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
New Living Translation
and the west side was also 875 feet.
New Life Bible
And the west side was as long as 500 sticks.
New Revised Standard
Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He turned about to the west side, - he measured five hundred reeds, by the measuring reed.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Revised Standard Version
Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
Young's Literal Translation
He hath turned round unto the west side, he hath measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed.
THE MESSAGE
Last of all he went to the west side and measured it: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

Contextual Overview

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Exodus 27:9 - the court

Cross-References

Genesis 40:3
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons: 'Why do ye look one upon another?'
Genesis 42:2
And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt. Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'
Genesis 42:26
And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.
Genesis 45:23
And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way.
Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.'
Jeremiah 37:15
And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He turned about to the west side,.... And took the dimensions of that, from angle to angle, the south and north points of it:

and measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed; and it was exactly of the same measure with the other three sides.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Precincts. The temple and its courts were surrounded by an area of exact dimensions 3,000 cubits (1,500 yards) square. See Plan IV.

Ezekiel 42:15

The inner house - The temple and its courts, all that lay within the “wall on the outside of the house Ezekiel 40:5; the gate” is the eastern gate of the outer court.

Measured it round about - The precincts, into which he had brought the seer through the eastern gate of the outer court.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 42:19. Ezekiel 42:16.


 
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