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New Century Version

Ezekiel 42:19

He went around to the west side; it measured eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.

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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
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 When the man finished measuring inside the Temple area, he brought me out through the east gateway. He measured the area all around. 16 The man measured the east side with the measuring stick; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick. 17 He measured the north side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick. 18 He measured the south side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick. 19 He went around to the west side; it measured eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick. 20 So he measured the Temple area on all four sides. The Temple area had a wall all around it that was eight hundred seventy-five feet long and eight hundred seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from that which was not holy.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 40:3
so he put them in the prison of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was kept.
Genesis 41:56
The hunger was everywhere in that part of the world. And Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the people of Egypt, because the time of hunger became terrible in Egypt.
Genesis 42:1
Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, so he said to his sons, "Why are you just sitting here looking at one another?
Genesis 42:2
I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us to eat, so that we will live and not die."
Genesis 42:26
So the brothers put the grain on their donkeys and left.
Genesis 45:23
Joseph also sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best things from Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other food for his father on his trip back.
Isaiah 42:7
You will help the blind to see. You will free those who are in prison, and you will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.
Isaiah 42:22
These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, "Bring them back."
Jeremiah 37:15
Those rulers were very angry with Jeremiah and beat him. Then they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the royal secretary, which had been made into a 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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