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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Ezekiel 42:8

For the length of the chambers which pertained to the outer court was fifty cubits, - and lo! in front of the temple a hundred cubits,

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Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Gallery;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the great hall were 175 feet long.
Hebrew Names Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
King James Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
English Standard Version
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.
New American Standard Bible
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the main room was a hundred cubits.
New Century Version
The row of rooms along the outer courtyard was eighty-seven and one-half feet long, and the rooms that faced the Temple were about one hundred seventy-five feet long.
Amplified Bible
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, while the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court, was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.
Legacy Standard Bible
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was one hundred cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet, whereas [the length of] the side facing the sanctuary was 175 feet.
Darby Translation
for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.
Easy-to-Read Version
The row of rooms that ran along the outer courtyard was 50 cubits long, although the total length of the building, as on the Temple side, was 100 cubits long.
George Lamsa Translation
For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and those before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Lexham English Bible
For the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and look! The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred cubits.
Literal Translation
For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. And, behold, in the face of the temple was a hundred cubits.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the legth of ye vttemost chambers in the fore courte was L. cubites also: but the length therof before the temple was an C. cubites.
American Standard Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Bible in Basic English
For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
King James Version (1611)
For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fiftie cubites: and loe, before the Temple were an hundreth cubites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fyftie cubites: and lo, before the temple was a hundred cubites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.
English Revised Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
World English Bible
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the lengthe of the tresories of the outermore halle was of fifti cubitis, and the lengthe bifor the face of the temple was of an hundrid cubitis.
Update Bible Version
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, look, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the length of the chambers that [were] in the outer court [was] fifty cubits: and lo, before the temple [were] a hundred cubits.
New English Translation
For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet long.
New King James Version
The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits.
New Living Translation
This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1⁄2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet.
New Life Bible
The rooms next to the outer open space were as long as fifty cubits, and those over from the Lord's house were as long as 100 cubits.
New Revised Standard
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were one hundred cubits long.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.
Revised Standard Version
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were a hundred cubits long.
Young's Literal Translation
for the length of the chambers that [are] to the outer court [is] fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple a hundred cubits.

Contextual Overview

1 Then he took me forth unto the outer court, the way toward the north, - and brought me unto the chamber which was over against the secluded place and which was over against the enclosing-wall, towards the north. 2 Facing the length of the hundred cubits, was the entrance of the north, - and the breadth was fifty cubits: 3 over against the twenty which pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement which pertained to the outer court, was gallery facing gallery, by the thirties; 4 and before the chambers, was a walk ten cubits in breadth inward, a way of one cubit, - and their entrances were to the north. 5 Now, the highest chambers were shortened, because the galleries took away therefrom more than from the lower or from the middle in structure. 6 For three stories, they were; and had not pillars like the pillars of the courts; for this cause, it differed from the lowest and from the middle, from the ground. 7 And as for the wall that was without. answering to the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers which pertained to the outer court was fifty cubits, - and lo! in front of the temple a hundred cubits, 9 And from under these chambers, was the entry from the east when one goeth in by them from the outer court. 10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east facing the secluded place and facing the enclosing wall, were chambers. n

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: Passing from the north to the south side of the temple - Ezekiel 42:11, Ezekiel 42:12, the prophet was shewn that the space of ground, which was before the temple on the east, measured 100 cubits. Ezekiel 42:8

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 11:18 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 37:2
These, are the generations of Jacob - Joseph, when seventeen years old, was shepherding with his brethren among the flocks, and, he, being a youth, was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives of his father, - so then Joseph brought in the talk about them - something bad, unto their father.
Luke 24:16
but, their eyes, were held, so as not to know him.
John 20:14
These things saying, she turned round, and seeth Jesus standing, and knew not that it was, Jesus.
John 21:4
But, morning by this time drawing on, Jesus stood upon the beach; nevertheless, the disciples knew not that it was, Jesus.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits,.... Which was the reason why the wall was of the same length, that it might be answerable to them; here length is put for breadth; see Ezekiel 42:2, this measure was from the north to south, as Lipman x observes:

and lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits; as the breadth of the wall and chambers was fifty, so in length, as they were over against the temple, they were an hundred cubits, as in Ezekiel 42:2, unless the account is to be taken thus; that the row of chambers towards the north were fifty cubits long, and the row towards the south over against the other was fifty cubits, and so both made a hundred; to which sense is the Septuagint version,

"for the length of the chambers that look to the outward court was fifty cubits, and those (that is, those that looked to the temple, or were before that) answered to them, the whole a hundred cubits;''

that is, both rows made a hundred cubits; but rather, as Lipman y says, the chambers contained from east to west a hundred cubits.

x Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 71. y Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The length - From north to south.

Before the temple - This describes their position in a general way; more precisely they lay over against partly the “separate place” and partly the “temple-court” Ezekiel 42:1.


 
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