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36 its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches. It had windows all around it; its length was 87½ feet[a] and its width 43¾ feet.[b] 37 Its jambs[c] faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

38 There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate;[d] there they washed the burnt offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:36 tn Heb “50 cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
  2. Ezekiel 40:36 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
  3. Ezekiel 40:37 tc The LXX reads “porches.”
  4. Ezekiel 40:38 tc The MT reads “jambs of the gates,” which does not make sense in a context discussing one chamber. The emendation to “porch” is similar to v. 14. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:530.