Ezekiel 40:8

Wycliffe Bible

and he mat the lyntil of the yate bisidis the porche of the yate with ynne, bi o rehed.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Next he measured the gate’s portico;

Hebrew Names Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

King James Version
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

English Standard Version
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed.

New American Standard Bible
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

New Century Version
Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.

Amplified Bible
He also measured the porch of the gate facing inward [toward the temple of the LORD], one rod.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He measured also the porche of the gate within with one reede.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

Berean Standard Bible
Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;

Contemporary English Version
at the end of the passageway. The man measured this room: It was thirteen feet from the doorway to the opposite wall, and the distance from the doorway to the wall on either side was three feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
He measured the gate's entranceway facing the house at ten-and-a-half feet.

Darby Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then he measured the porch.

George Lamsa Translation
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Good News Translation
He measured this room and found it was 14 feet deep. It formed that end of the gateway which was nearest the Temple, and at its far end the walls were 4 feet thick.

Lexham English Bible
And then he measured the portico of the gate on the inside as one reed.

Literal Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He measured also the porche of the ynnermer dore, which conteyned a meterodde.

American Standard Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Bible in Basic English
And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

King James Version (1611)
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He measured also the porche of the gate within one cane.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.

English Revised Version
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

World English Bible
He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Update Bible Version
He measured also the porch of the gate,

Webster's Bible Translation
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

New English Translation
Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

New King James Version
He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate, one rod.

New Living Translation
He also measured the entry room of the gateway.

New Life Bible
Then he showed me with his stick that the porch of the inside gate was one-tenth stick wide.

New Revised Standard
Then he measured the inner vestibule of the gateway, one cubit.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then measured he the porch of the gate inwards, one read.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within, was one reed.

Revised Standard Version
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits;

Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the porch of the gate from within one reed,

THE MESSAGE
He measured the inside porch of the gate complex: twelve feet deep, flanked by pillars three feet thick. The porch opened onto the Temple courtyard.

Contextual Overview

⁵ And lo! a wal withouteforth, in the cumpas of the hous on ech side; and in the hond of the man was a rehed of mesure of sixe cubitis and a spanne, that is, an handibreede; and he mat the breede of the bildyng with o rehed, and the hiynesse bi o rehed. ⁶ And he cam to the yate that bihelde the weie of the eest, and he stiede bi degrees of it; and he mat the lyntil of the yate bi o rehed the breede, that is, o lyntil bi o rehed in breede; ⁷ and he mat o chaumbre bi o rehed in lengthe, and bi o rehed in breed, and fyue cubitis bitwixe chaumbris; ⁸ and he mat the lyntil of the yate bisidis the porche of the yate with ynne, bi o rehed. ⁹ And he mat the porch of the yate of eiyte cubitis, and the frount therof bi twei cubitis; sotheli the porche of the yate was with ynne. ¹⁰ Certis the chaumbris of the yate at the weie of the eest weren thre on this side, and thre on that side; o mesure of thre, and o mesure of the frountis on euer ethir side. ¹¹ And he mat the breede of the lyntel of the yate of ten cubitis, and the lengthe of the yate of threttene cubitis. ¹² And he mat a margyn of a cubit bifor the chaumbris, and o cubit was the ende on ech side; forsothe the chaumbris weren of sixe cubitis on this side and on that side. ¹³ And he mat the yate fro the roof of the chaumbre til to the roof therof, the breede of fyue and twenti cubitis, a dore ayens a dore. ¹⁴ And he made frountes bi sixti cubitis, and at the frount an halle of the yate on ech side bi cumpas;

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:11 - the porch Jeremiah 31:39 - General Ezekiel 40:21 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 40:10
in which weren thre siouns, wexide litil and litil in to buriounnyngis, and that aftir flouris grapys wexiden ripe,

Genesis 40:11
and the cuppe of Farao was in myn hond; therfor Y took the grapis, and presside out in to the cuppe which Y helde, and Y yaf drynk to Farao.

Genesis 40:15
for theefli Y am takun awei fro the lond of Ebrews, and here Y am sent innocent in to prisoun.

Genesis 40:16
The `maister of bakeris seiye that Joseph hadde expowned prudentli the dreem, and he seide, And Y seiy a dreem, that Y hadde thre panyeris of mele on myn heed,

Psalms 25:14
The Lord is a sadnesse to men dredynge hym; and his testament is, that it be schewid to hem.

Isaiah 8:19
And whanne thei seien to you, Axe ye of coniureris, and of false dyuynouris, that gnasten in her enchauntyngis, whether the puple schal not axe of her God a reuelacioun for quyke men and deed?

Daniel 2:11
For the word which thou, kyng, axist, is greuouse, nether ony schal be foundun, that schal schewe it in the siyt of the king, outakun goddis, whos lyuyng is not with men.

Daniel 2:28
But God is in heuene, that schewith priuytees, which hath schewid to thee, thou king Nabugodonosor, what thingis schulen come in the laste tymes. Thi dreem and visiouns of thin heed, in thi bed, ben sich.

Daniel 2:47
Therfor the kyng spak, and seide to Danyel, Verili youre God is God of goddis, and Lord of kyngis, that schewith mysteries, for thou miytist opene this sacrament.

Daniel 4:8
Danyel, to whom the name was Balthasar, bi the name of my God, entride in my siyt, which Danyel hath the spirit of hooli goddis in hym silf; and Y spak the dreem bifor hym.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. This was either the measure of the breadth of the porch between the opposite chambers on both sides; or rather of the length of that space, which was between the third little chamber and the last gate; and such a space must be supposed to be between the first gate and the first little chamber, which space were three yards and a half; which shows how spacious the churches of Christ will be, and how exactly measured.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The east gate-building. See Plan III.

Ezekiel 40:6

Stairs - Seven in number Ezekiel 40:22. Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ft.). The measurements are being taken from East to west, i. e., in depth.

Ezekiel 40:7

Every little chamber - The guard-chambers (a) for the use of the Levites who kept watch in the temple.

The threshold of the gate by the porch - The second threshold in the easternmost gate-way (c).

Porch - Hebrew אולם 'ûlâm; the Septuagint: αἰλάμ ailam; Vulgate: vestibulum. The word probably means porch or portico, connected with “ail” post or pillar.

Ezekiel 40:9

The porch is now measured from north to south in “wide.” “The breadth of the entry of the gate” was “ten cubits,” made up of the “eight cubits,” with “a cubit” for “a post” or pillar on each side Ezekiel 40:11.

Posts - A projection like a ram’s horn; in architecture, a column projecting from the wall with its base, shaft, and capital, or it may be the “base” only Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:49. Here “post” represents the lower part of the column. and the dimensions given are those of the section of the base.

Ezekiel 40:10

In front of each guard-chamber were columns, whose “posts” (bases) were each one cubit square.

Ezekiel 40:11

The length of the gate - The length of the gateway (including the porch, E.) from the court to the uncovered space. The threshold was “six cubits,” and the porch “six.” In addition one cubit was probably allowed in front of the porch, as before the porch of the temple itself Ezekiel 40:49.

Ezekiel 40:13

This measurement is across the gate-building from north to south. The breadth of the gate-building was exactly half its length Ezekiel 40:15.

Ezekiel 40:14

Posts of threescore cubits - Sixty cubits were the length of a series of columns. This gives us another feature of the gate-building. Between the porch (E) and the two most western guard-chambers was a space of five cubits (through which the road passed), forming a kind of hall with columns along the sides. This hall is called the “arches” Ezekiel 40:16. A hall of the same dimensions was between the boundary wall and eastern guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:31. It is probable that in one of these halls (that of the eastern gateway of the inner court) the prince “ate bread” on solemn festivals Ezekiel 44:3.

Unto the post of the court round about the gate - This hall or colonnade extended the whole breadth of the building to the pavement (Ezekiel 40:18, H, Plan II). Outside the building on the pavement was a series of pillars.

Ezekiel 40:15

The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:

Thickness of boundary wall	6 cubits
Hall of the entrance	5 cubits
Three guard-chambers (6 cubits)	18 cubits
Spaces between guard-chambers	10 cubits
Hall of the porch	5 cubits
The porch	6 cubits
Total	50 cubits

Ezekiel 40:16

The “narrow” (closed and (?)latticed “windows” lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the “post” stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.