Ezekiel 41:8

THE MESSAGE

I observed that the Temple had a ten-and-a-half-foot-thick raised base around it, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. The outside walls of the side rooms were eight and three-quarters feet thick. The open area between the side rooms of the Temple and the priests' rooms was a thirty-five-foot-wide strip all around the Temple. There were two entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one placed on the north side, the other on the south. There were eight and three-quarters feet of open space all around.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10½ feet high.

Hebrew Names Version
I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

King James Version
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

English Standard Version
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.

New American Standard Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.

New Century Version
I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all around. Its edge was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was ten and one-half feet thick.

Amplified Bible
I also saw that the temple (house) had a raised platform all around it; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full rod of six long cubits in height.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I sawe also the house hie rounde about: the foundations of the chambers were a full reede of fixe great cubites.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.

Legacy Standard Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.

Berean Standard Bible
I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.

Contemporary English Version
The temple rested on a stone base ten feet high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms.

Complete Jewish Bible
I saw that the house had a raised pavement all around it which extended outward a full rod of ten-and-a-half feet from where the foundations of the side-rooms joined it.

Darby Translation
And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.

Easy-to-Read Version
I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all the way around it. It was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was a full ruler high.

George Lamsa Translation
I saw also the height of the house round about; and the side rooms were separated one from another a full measuring reed of six cubits.

Good News Translation
The outside wall of these rooms was 8 feet thick; there was one door into the rooms on the north side of the Temple, and one into those on the south side. I saw that there was a terrace 8 feet wide around the Temple; it was 10 feet above the ground and it was level with the foundation of the rooms by the Temple walls. Between the terrace and the buildings used by the priests there was an open space 34 feet across, along the sides of the Temple.

Lexham English Bible
And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.

Literal Translation
I also saw the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed, six cubits by joining.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I sawe also that the house was very hye rounde aboute. The foundacion of the syde chambres was a meterodde (that is sixe cubites) brode.

American Standard Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

Bible in Basic English
And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six cubits to the joining.

King James Version (1611)
I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reede of sixe great cubites.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I saw the house hye round about: the foundatios of the chambers [were] a ful cane of sixe cubites vp to the armeholes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;

English Revised Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

World English Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y siy in the hous an hiynesse bi cumpas, the sidis foundid at the mesure of a rehed in the space of sixe cubitis;

Update Bible Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

Webster's Bible Translation
I saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the side-chambers [were] a full reed of six great cubits.

New English Translation
I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.

New King James Version
I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, that is, six cubits high.

New Living Translation
I saw that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1⁄2 feet high.

New Life Bible
I saw that the house had a raised base all around it, which made the base for the side rooms six cubits high.

New Revised Standard
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then saw I that the house had a height round about on every side, - the foundations of the side- chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joining.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six cubits:

Revised Standard Version
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform round about; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have looked at the house, the height all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers [are] the fulness of the reed, six cubits by the joining.

Contextual Overview

¹He brought me into the Temple itself and measured the doorposts on each side. Each was ten and a half feet thick. The entrance was seventeen and a half feet wide. The walls on each side were eight and three-quarters feet thick. He also measured the Temple Sanctuary: seventy feet by thirty-five feet. ³He went further in and measured the doorposts at the entrance: Each was three and a half feet thick. The entrance itself was ten and a half feet wide, and the entrance walls were twelve and a quarter feet thick. He measured the inside Sanctuary, thirty-five feet square, set at the end of the main Sanctuary. He told me, "This is The Holy of Holies." ⁵He measured the wall of the Temple. It was ten and a half feet thick. The side rooms around the Temple were seven feet wide. There were three floors of these side rooms, thirty rooms on each of the three floors. There were supporting beams around the Temple wall to hold up the side rooms, but they were freestanding, not attached to the wall itself. The side rooms around the Temple became wider from first floor to second floor to third floor. A staircase went from the bottom floor, through the middle, and then to the top floor. ⁸I observed that the Temple had a ten-and-a-half-foot-thick raised base around it, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. The outside walls of the side rooms were eight and three-quarters feet thick. The open area between the side rooms of the Temple and the priests' rooms was a thirty-five-foot-wide strip all around the Temple. There were two entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one placed on the north side, the other on the south. There were eight and three-quarters feet of open space all around.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a full: Ezekiel 40:5, Revelation 21:16

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 43:13 - The cubits

Cross-References

Genesis 40:6
As time went on, it happened that the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt crossed their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the head cupbearer and the head baker, and put them in custody under the captain of the guard; it was the same jail where Joseph was held. The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to see to their needs. After they had been in custody for a while, the king's cupbearer and baker, while being held in the jail, both had a dream on the same night, each dream having its own meaning. When Joseph arrived in the morning, he noticed that they were feeling low. So he asked them, the two officials of Pharaoh who had been thrown into jail with him, "What's wrong? Why the long faces?" They said, "We dreamed dreams and there's no one to interpret them." Joseph said, "Don't interpretations come from God? Tell me the dreams." First the head cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: "In my dream there was a vine in front of me with three branches on it: It budded, blossomed, and the clusters ripened into grapes. I was holding Pharaoh's cup; I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup to Pharaoh." Joseph said, "Here's the meaning. The three branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will get you out of here and put you back to your old work—you'll be giving Pharaoh his cup just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. Only remember me when things are going well with you again—tell Pharaoh about me and get me out of this place. I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And since I've been here, I've done nothing to deserve being put in this hole." When the head baker saw how well Joseph's interpretation turned out, he spoke up: "My dream went like this: I saw three wicker baskets on my head; the top basket had assorted pastries from the bakery and birds were picking at them from the basket on my head." Joseph said, "This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days; within three days Pharaoh will take off your head, impale you on a post, and the birds will pick your bones clean." And sure enough, on the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday and he threw a feast for all his servants. He set the head cupbearer and the head baker in places of honor in the presence of all the guests. Then he restored the head cupbearer to his cupbearing post; he handed Pharaoh his cup just as before. And then he impaled the head baker on a post, following Joseph's interpretations exactly. But the head cupbearer never gave Joseph another thought; he forgot all about him.

Genesis 40:8
They said, "We dreamed dreams and there's no one to interpret them." Joseph said, "Don't interpretations come from God? Tell me the dreams."

Genesis 41:1
Two years passed and Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile River. Seven cows came up out of the Nile, all shimmering with health, and grazed on the marsh grass. Then seven other cows, all skin and bones, came up out of the river after them and stood by them on the bank of the Nile. The skinny cows ate the seven healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Genesis 41:8
When morning came, he was upset. He sent for all the magicians and sages of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but they couldn't interpret them to him.

Genesis 41:9
The head cupbearer then spoke up and said to Pharaoh, "I just now remembered something—I'm sorry, I should have told you this long ago. Once when Pharaoh got angry with his servants, he locked me and the head baker in the house of the captain of the guard. We both had dreams on the same night, each dream with its own meaning. It so happened that there was a young Hebrew slave there with us; he belonged to the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us, each dream separately. Things turned out just as he interpreted. I was returned to my position and the head baker was impaled."

Genesis 41:14
Pharaoh at once sent for Joseph. They brought him on the run from the jail cell. He cut his hair, put on clean clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:28
"The meaning is what I said earlier: God is letting Pharaoh in on what he is going to do. Seven years of plenty are on their way throughout Egypt. But on their heels will come seven years of famine, leaving no trace of the Egyptian plenty. As the country is emptied by famine, there won't be even a scrap left of the previous plenty—the famine will be total. The fact that Pharaoh dreamed the same dream twice emphasizes God's determination to do this and do it soon.

Exodus 7:11
Pharaoh called in his wise men and sorcerers. The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their incantations: each man threw down his staff and they all turned into snakes. But then Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.

Exodus 7:22
But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their incantations. Still Pharaoh remained stubborn. He wouldn't listen to them as God had said. He turned on his heel and went home, never giving it a second thought. But all the Egyptians had to dig inland from the river for water because they couldn't drink the Nile water. Seven days went by after God had struck the Nile.

Exodus 8:7
But again the magicians did the same thing using their incantations—they also produced frogs in Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I saw also the height of the house round about,.... Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have been no room for windows to let in light into it:

the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits; not of the lowest storey of them, for that was but four cubits broad, Ezekiel 41:5, nor of the middlemost, which was five; but of the uppermost, which was six; and these were cubits of the largest size, a hand's breadth larger than the common cubit, and made one full reed, or three yards and a half; see Ezekiel 40:5, these foundations signify the same as the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem; and which are no other than the one foundation Christ, ministerially laid by his twelve apostles; and who is the only foundation of his church and people, and is a sure one, Revelation 21:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The foundations of the side chambers - Therefore the height of the side-chambers from the floor was six cubits there being three stories, which corresponds sufficiently with the twenty cubits which was the height of the temple. “A great cubit” is probably an architectural term to denote the line of junction between two stories, which would be that of the ceiling of the lower and the floor of the upper story.