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Young's Literal Translation

Ezekiel 42:2

At the front of the length [is] a hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.

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Dictionaries:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Along the length of the chambers, which was 175 feet, there was an entrance on the north; the width was 87½ feet.
Hebrew Names Version
Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
King James Version
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
English Standard Version
The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.
New American Standard Bible
Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.
New Century Version
These rooms on the north side were one hundred seventy-five feet long and eighty-seven and one-half feet wide.
Amplified Bible
Along the length, one hundred cubits, was the north door; and the width was fifty cubits.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Before ye length of an hundreth cubites, was the North doore, and it was fiftie cubites broad.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.
Legacy Standard Bible
Along the length, which was one hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
Complete Jewish Bible
The length of the front was 175 feet on the north side, where the door was; the width was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.
Darby Translation
before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
Easy-to-Read Version
This building was 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide. People entered it from the courtyard on the north side.
George Lamsa Translation
Towards the place where he measured a hundred cubits, which is at the north gate, and the breadth of it was fifty cubits.
Good News Translation
This building was 168 feet long and 84 feet wide.
Lexham English Bible
As to the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits.
Literal Translation
To the face of its length was a hundred cubits, toward the north door, and fifty cubits wide.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wydenesse conteyned L. cubites,
American Standard Version
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Bible in Basic English
On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,
King James Version (1611)
Before the length of an hundreth cubites was the North doore, and the breadth was fiftie cubits.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before the length of a hundred cubites [was] the north doore: and the breadth [was] fiftie cubites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a hundred cubits in length toward the north, and in breadth fifty,
English Revised Version
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
World English Bible
Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the face an hundrid cubitis of lengthe of the dore of the north, and fifti cubitis of breede,
Update Bible Version
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
Before the length of a hundred cubits [was] the north door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits.
New English Translation
Its length was 175 feet on the north side, and its width 87½ feet.
New King James Version
Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door.
New Living Translation
This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1⁄2 feet wide.
New Life Bible
The building whose door faced north was as long as 100 cubits and as wide as fifty cubits.
New Revised Standard
The length of the building that was on the north side was one hundred cubits, and the width fifty cubits.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Facing the length of the hundred cubits, was the entrance of the north, - and the breadth was fifty cubits:
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the face of the north door was the length of hundred cubits, and the breadth of fifty cubits.
Revised Standard Version
The length of the building which was on the north side was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.

Contextual Overview

1 And he bringeth me forth unto the outer court, the way northward, and he bringeth me in unto the chamber that [is] over-against the separate place, and that [is] over-against the building at the north. 2 At the front of the length [is] a hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits. 3 Over-against the twenty [cubits] that are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that [is] to the outer court, [is] gallery over-against gallery, in the three [storeys]. 4 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. 5 And the upper chambers [are] short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building; 6 for they [are] threefold, and they have no pillars as the pillars of the court, therefore it hath been kept back -- more than the lower and than the middle one -- from the ground. 7 As to the wall that [is] at the outside, over-against the chambers, the way of the outer-court at the front of the chambers, its length [is] fifty cubits; 8 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. 9 And under these chambers [is] the entrance from the east, in one's going into them from the outer court. 10 In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, unto the front of the separate place, and unto the front of the building, [are] chambers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Before: Perhaps this means, that the north door was 100 cubits from the entrance into the court; and that the door-way, or portico, was 50 cubits in length; or, that it faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was 100 cubits, and its breadth 50, which was the proportion of all the cloisters. Ezekiel 42:2

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 42:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 43:2
and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'
Genesis 43:4
if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,
Genesis 43:8
And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.
Genesis 45:9
`Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not,
Psalms 118:17
I do not die, but live, And recount the works of Jah,
Isaiah 38:1
In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou [art] dying, and dost not live.'
Matthew 4:4
But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,.... That is, the north door of the house opened to a space that lay between that and the chambers, which was a hundred cubits long:

and the breadth was fifty cubits; or the sense is, that the prophet was brought, as Noldius renders the words t,

to a place whose length was an hundred cubits towards the north door; so that they describe the length and breadth of these chambers, the whole of them; and to this agrees the Arabic version: this account of them makes them larger than Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:2, which may signify the largeness of these churches; the number of men in them; and the abundance of spiritual blessings and privileges, of light and knowledge, peace and joy, possessed by them: but the measure being oblong, and not foursquare, as the city of the New Jerusalem,

Revelation 21:16, shows they are not yet come to stability and perfection.

t Concord. Ebr. Partic. p. 82.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He brought me “before” a row of chambers 100 cubits long, east and west. “The door” of which lay on the north side of the chambers. The priests entered from the outer court (O); the breadth of this block of chambers was fifty cubits, north and south Ezekiel 42:8.


 
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