Ezekiel 40:3-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
3 When he brought me there, I saw a man who looked as if he were made of bronze. In his hand he had a linen cord and a measuring rod. He was standing by the gatehouse.
4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch carefully, listen carefully, and pay attention to[a] everything that I am about to show you, because you were brought here so that I could show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.”
The Wall and Outer Gates
The Wall
5 I saw a wall[b] all the way around the temple compound. In the man’s hand was the measuring rod, six cubits long (using the long cubit).[c] When he measured the thickness of the structure, it was one rod thick, and its height was one rod.
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- Ezekiel 40:4 Literally look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your heart on
- Ezekiel 40:5 Feature A on the diagram of the temple
- Ezekiel 40:5 A long cubit is about 21 inches long instead of the standard 18 inches. A long cubit consists of the regular cubit (18 inches) plus a handbreadth (3 inches). The measuring rod is therefore about 10½ feet long. Because some of the numbers in the descriptions of the land and the temple have symbolic value, the translation (contrary to our normal practice) will retain the measurements in cubits. Footnotes converting some of the measurements to feet will help readers visualize the size of the temple and its objects. All conversions are rounded off.
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