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Ezekiel 42:7

And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forepart;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87½ feet long.
Hebrew Names Version
The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
King James Version
And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
English Standard Version
And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
New American Standard Bible
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.
New Century Version
There was a wall outside parallel to the rooms and to the outer courtyard. It ran in front of the rooms for eighty-seven and one-half feet.
Amplified Bible
And the outer wall, by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, was fifty cubits long.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers, toward the vtter court on the forefront of the chambers, was fiftie cubites long.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.
Legacy Standard Bible
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court, for fifty cubits.
Contemporary English Version
To the north was a privacy wall eighty-five feet long,
Complete Jewish Bible
The length of the wall outside, next to the rooms, toward the outer courtyard in front of the rooms, was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.
Darby Translation
And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:
Easy-to-Read Version
There was a wall outside that was parallel to the rooms and ran along the outer courtyard. It ran in front of the rooms for 50 cubits.
George Lamsa Translation
And the wall that was outside, which is opposite the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
Good News Translation
At 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.
Lexham English Bible
And there was a wall that was to the outside alongside the chambers on the walkway to the outer courtyard in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.
Literal Translation
And the wall that was outside near the rooms the way of the outer court, on the face of the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wall without that stode by ye chambres towarde the vttemost courte vpon the fore syde of the chambres, was L. cubites loge:
American Standard Version
And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Bible in Basic English
And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
King James Version (1611)
And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers towards the vtter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fiftie cubites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers, towarde the vtter court on the forefront of the chambers, the length therof was fiftie cubits.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length of them was fifty cubits.
English Revised Version
And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
World English Bible
The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the outermore halle closynge the walkynge place was bi the treseries, that weren in the weie of the outermore halle, bifor the treseries; the lengthe therof was of fifti cubitis.
Update Bible Version
And the wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it [was] fifty cubits.
New English Translation
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.
New King James Version
And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers, at the front of the chambers, toward the outer court; its length was fifty cubits.
New Living Translation
There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1⁄2 feet long.
New Life Bible
There was an outside wall built beside the rooms toward the outer open space. It was in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.
New Revised Standard
There was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And as for the wall that was without. answering to the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.
Revised Standard Version
And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.
Young's Literal Translation
As to the wall that [is] at the outside, over-against the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length [is] fifty cubits;

Contextual Overview

1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building, toward the north, 2 even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits, 3 over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. 6 For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground. 7 And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits. 9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court. 10 In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:18 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 42:9
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them: 'Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.'
Genesis 42:12
And he said unto them: 'Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.'
Genesis 42:14
And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies.
Genesis 42:17
And he put them all together into ward three days.
Genesis 42:19
if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses;
Genesis 42:20
and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.' And they did so.
Genesis 42:23
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for the interpreter was between them.
Genesis 42:26
And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.
Genesis 42:30
'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the wall that was without over against the chambers,.... This wall separated and distinguished the chambers from the outward court, as well as was a protection of them; and signifies the grace and power of God, which separates his true churches from the world, and is the security of them; :-

this was towards the utter court, on the fore part of the chambers; or front of them, which seems to be to the north of them; since their doors were towards the north, Ezekiel 42:4, though Cocceius makes it to be to the west, which better agrees with what follows:

the length thereof was fifty cubits; which answers to the breadth of the chambers, Ezekiel 42:2 and what is called length here, with respect to the wall, is called the breadth with respect to the chambers. The wall of divine protection is equal to the length and breadth, and even the whole compass, of the churches of Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “wall” here must be one from north to south, fencing off from the outer court the passage along the east side of the chambers, and therefore fifty cubits long.


 
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