Ezekiel 42:4

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In front of the chambers was a walkway toward the inside, 17� feet wide and 175 feet long, and their entrances were on the north.

Hebrew Names Version
Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

King James Version
And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

English Standard Version
And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.

New American Standard Bible
In front of the chambers was an inner passage ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

New Century Version
There was a path on the north side of the rooms, which was seventeen and one-half feet wide and one hundred seventy-five feet long. Doors led into the rooms from this path.

Amplified Bible
In front of the [attached] chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits long; and their entrances were on the north.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And before the chambers was a gallery of ten cubites wide, and within was a way of one cubite, and their doores towarde the North.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

Legacy Standard Bible
Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

Berean Standard Bible
In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

Contemporary English Version
with doors that opened toward the north, and in front of them was a walkway seventeen feet wide and one hundred seventy feet long.

Complete Jewish Bible
In front of the [block of] rooms was a walkway seventeen-and-a-half feet wide and a path twenty-one inches [wide]; their doors faced north.

Darby Translation
and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north.

Easy-to-Read Version
There was a path 10 cubits wide and 100 cubits long running along the south side of the building, even though the entrance was on the north side.

George Lamsa Translation
And before the rooms was a passage ten cubits broad, and its length a hundred cubits; and the door of the passage was toward the north.

Good News Translation
Along the north side of this building was a passageway 16 feet wide and 168 feet long, with entrances on that side.

Lexham English Bible
And in front of the chambers was a passageway ten cubits in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit, and their doorways were to the north.

Literal Translation
And before the rooms was a walk ten cubits wide, to the inside, a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And before this chabre there was a walkinge place of x. cubites wyde, and within was a waye of one cubite wyde, and their dores towarde the north.

American Standard Version
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Bible in Basic English
And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

King James Version (1611)
And before the chambers was a walke of ten cubites breadth inward, a way of one cubite, and their doores toward the North.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And before the chambers, ther was a walking place of ten cubites wyde inwarde, the way of one cubite: and their doores towarde the north.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

English Revised Version
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

World English Bible
Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And bifor the tresories was a walkyng of ten cubitis of breede, biholdynge to the ynnere thingis of the weie of o cubit. And the doris of tho to the north,

Update Bible Version
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' width, and inward a passage of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

Webster's Bible Translation
And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors towards the north.

New English Translation
In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, and their entrances were on the north.

New King James Version
In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

New Living Translation
Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1⁄2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north.

New Life Bible
In front of the rooms was an inside walkway as wide as ten cubits and as long as 100 cubits. Their doors were on the north.

New Revised Standard
In front of the chambers was a passage on the inner side, ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits deep, and its entrances were on the north.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and before the chambers, was a walk ten cubits in breadth inward, a way of one cubit, - and their entrances were to the north.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the north.

Revised Standard Version
And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.

Young's Literal Translation
And at the front of the chambers [is] a walk of ten cubits in breadth unto the inner part, a way of one cubit, and their openings [are] at the north.

Contextual Overview

¹The man led me north into the outside courtyard and brought me to the rooms that are in front of the open space and the house facing north. The length of the house on the north was one hundred seventy-five feet, and its width eighty-seven and a half feet. Across the thirty-five feet that separated the inside courtyard from the paved walkway at the edge of the outside courtyard, the rooms rose level by level for three stories. In front of the rooms on the inside was a hallway seventeen and a half feet wide and one hundred seventy-five feet long. Its entrances were from the north. The upper rooms themselves were narrower, their galleries being wider than on the first and second floors of the building. The rooms on the third floor had no pillars like the pillars in the outside courtyard and were smaller than the rooms on the first and second floors. There was an outside wall parallel to the rooms and the outside courtyard. It fronted the rooms for eighty-seven and a half feet. The row of rooms facing the outside courtyard was eighty-seven and a half feet long. The row on the side nearest the Sanctuary was one hundred seventy-five feet long. The first-floor rooms had their entrance from the east, coming in from the outside courtyard. ¹⁰On the south side along the length of the courtyard's outside wall and fronting on the Temple courtyard were rooms with a walkway in front of them. These were just like the rooms on the north—same exits and dimensions—with the main entrance from the east leading to the hallway and the doors to the rooms the same as those on the north side. The design on the south was a mirror image of that on the north. ¹³Then he said to me, "The north and south rooms adjacent to the open area are holy rooms where the priests who come before God eat the holy offerings. There they place the holy offerings—grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings. These are set-apart rooms, holy space. After the priests have entered the Sanctuary, they must not return to the outside courtyard and mingle among the people until they change the sacred garments in which they minister and put on their regular clothes."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: These seems to have been two rows of these chambers, and a walk between of ten cubits in width; with an entrance into it from the chambers, of one cubit in width.

a walk: Ezekiel 42:11

a way: Matthew 7:14, Luke 13:24

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 40:17 - thirty Ezekiel 41:9 - that which Ezekiel 41:11 - and the breadth

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
God said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot happen!"

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there across the Earth."

Genesis 42:1
When Jacob learned that there was food in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you sit around here and look at one another? I've heard that there is food in Egypt. Go down there and buy some so that we can survive and not starve to death."

Genesis 42:22
Reuben broke in. "Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't hurt the boy'? But no, you wouldn't listen. And now we're paying for his murder."

Genesis 42:27
When they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to get food for his donkey; there at the mouth of his bag was his money. He called out to his brothers, "My money has been returned; it's right here in my bag!" They were puzzled—and frightened. "What's God doing to us?"

Genesis 42:38
But Jacob refused. "My son will not go down with you. His brother is dead and he is all I have left. If something bad happens to him on the road, you'll put my gray, sorrowing head in the grave."

Genesis 43:29
Then Joseph picked out his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son. He asked, "And is this your youngest brother that you told me about?" Then he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward,.... That is, within side, or between the two rows of chambers, there was a walk of this breadth, for those that lodged in the chambers to walk in for their pleasure and profit, and to converse with one another. Such who by these "chambers" understand places of retirement for private devotion, or the duties of the closet, which fit and prepare for public worship, as these chambers were near and in sight of the temple, so by this walk then Christian conference and conversation is intended; and shows, that the whole of religious time is not to be spent between the church and the chamber; but some part of it should be allotted for spiritual discourse, about gracious experiences, the truths of the Gospel, and the duties of religion; but as chambers design churches, this walk denotes the outward walk and conversation of the saints; which should be according to the rule of God's word, as becomes the Gospel, and worthy of the calling wherewith they are called. Starckius applies this to the decalogue or ten commandments, which is a broad way, Psalms 119:32 and the moral law, as in the hands of Christ, is a rule of walk and conversation to believers under the Gospel: and besides, there "was a way of one cubit"; which led into the chambers, and out of them into the broad walk: this is a narrow way, as Christ is said to be, Matthew 7:14 and whoever profess faith in him, and in this way enter into a Gospel church state, and into the kingdom of heaven, must be attended with much affliction and persecution, and pass through many tribulations; and there being both a broad walk and a narrow way, and these lying near one another, and a passage from the one to the other, may denote that the churches and people of God are sometimes in prosperity, and sometimes in adversity; one while they walk at liberty, as in a large place; and at other times in great straits and difficulties:

and their doors toward the north; that is, the doors of that row of chambers nearest the temple; these opened to the north into the walk of ten cubits; though one would think that the row opposite to them, their doors must be to the south, into the broad walk between them; unless this is to be understood of the doors that opened into the way of one cubit, and were to the north in both rows; but then the way of one cubit could not in both lead into the broad walk.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, In the front “of the chambers” was a gangway “of ten cubits” breadth (leading) “inward,” a path “of one cubit, and their doors toward the north.” The “gangway” had stairs to the upper stories, while along the north front of the building there was a kerb of one cubit, as before the guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:12, on which kerb the north doors (leading to the basement) opened. Others follow the Septuagint “And opposite the chambers a walk 10 cubits in width to 100 cubits in length.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 42:4. A walk of ten cubits' breadth inward — This seems to have been a sort of parapet.