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New Life Version

Ezekiel 42:17

The north side was as long as 500 sticks.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Reed;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Balance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Wind;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He measured the north side;
Hebrew Names Version
He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
King James Version
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
English Standard Version
He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.
New American Standard Bible
He measured on the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
New Century Version
He measured the north side; it was eight hundred seventy-five feet by the measuring stick.
Amplified Bible
He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He measured also the Northside, fiue hundreth reedes, euen with the measuring reede rounde about.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.
Legacy Standard Bible
He measured on the north side 500 reeds by the measuring reed.
Berean Standard Bible
He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long.
Contemporary English Version
Then he measured the north side, the south side, and the west side of the wall, and they were each eight hundred forty feet long,
Complete Jewish Bible
He measured the north side; it was 875 feet by the measuring rod.
Darby Translation
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.
Easy-to-Read Version
He measured the north side. It was 500 cubits long.
George Lamsa Translation
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
Good News Translation
Then he measured the north side, the south side, and the west side; each side had the same length, 840 feet,
Lexham English Bible
He measured the north side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement all around.
Literal Translation
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed, all around.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the north syde measured he, which conteyned rounde aboute euen so moch.
American Standard Version
He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
Bible in Basic English
And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
King James Version (1611)
Hee measured the North side fiue hundreth reedes, with a measuring reed round about.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he measured the north side fyue hundred canes, [euen] with the measuring cane round about.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.
English Revised Version
He measured on the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
World English Bible
He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he mat ayens the wynd of the north fiue hundred rehedis, in the rehed of mesure bi cumpas.
Update Bible Version
He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
Webster's Bible Translation
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed around.
New English Translation
He measured the north side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.
New King James Version
He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.
New Living Translation
Then he measured the north side, and it was also 875 feet.
New Revised Standard
Then he turned and measured the north side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, by the measuring reed round about.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.
Revised Standard Version
Then he turned and measured the north side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.
Young's Literal Translation
He hath measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
THE MESSAGE
He measured the north side: eight hundred seventy-five feet.

Contextual Overview

15 When he had finished showing me the lengths and widths of the inner house, he brought me out through the east gate. And he showed me the lengths of all the open space around the house. 16 He showed me with his stick that the east side was as long as 500 sticks. 17 The north side was as long as 500 sticks. 18 The south side was as long as 500 sticks. 19 And the west side was as long as 500 sticks. 20 He showed me the length of the four sides. It had a wall all around it, as long as 500 sticks and as wide as 500 sticks. This wall divided what was holy from what was not.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 40:4
The head of the soldiers had Joseph watch over them. He took care of them, and they were in prison for a long time.
Genesis 40:7
So he asked these men who had worked for Pharaoh and who were with him in prison in his boss's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?"
Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh was angry with his servants. And he put me and the head bread-maker in prison in the house of the head of the soldiers.
Leviticus 24:12
And they kept him shut up until the will of the Lord might be made known to them.
Psalms 119:65
You have done good to Your servant, O Lord, because of Your Word.
Isaiah 24:22
They will be gathered together like those in a prison. They will be kept in a deep, dark prison, and after many days they will be punished.
Acts 4:3
So they took them and put them in prison until the next day because it was evening.
Acts 5:18
They took hold of the missionaries and put them in prison.
Hebrews 12:10
For a little while our fathers on earth punished us when they thought they should. But God punishes us for our good so we will be holy as He is holy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He measured the north side, five hundred reeds,.... From the two angles of that side, east and west; and it was of the same dimension as the east side, just five hundred reeds, or one thousand seven hundred and fifty yards:

with a measuring reed round about; he measured with the same reed, from point to point; and having measured this side, he went to another.

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.


 
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