Ezekiel 40:11

King James Version

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

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;

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.

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.

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 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. ⁶ Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. ⁷ And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. ⁸ He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. ⁹ Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. ¹⁰ And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. ¹¹ And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. ¹² The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. ¹³ He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door. ¹⁴ He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

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Reciprocal: Ezekiel 40:13 - the gate

Cross-References

Genesis 40:21
And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:

Genesis 49:11
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Leviticus 10:9
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

1 Kings 10:5
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord ; there was no more spirit in her.

2 Chronicles 9:4
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord ; there was no more spirit in her.

Proverbs 3:10
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

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.