Ezekiel 40

The Vision of the New Temple

1 # Ezek 1.2, 3; 33.21 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me there. 2#Ezek 8.3; 17.23; Dan 7.1, 7; Rev 21.10He brought me, in visions of God, to the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain on which was a structure like a city to the south. 3#Ezek 1.7; 47.3; Dan 10.6; Rev 11.1; 21.15When he brought me there, a man was there whose appearance shone like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand, and he was standing in the gateway. 4#Jer 26.2; Ezek 43.10; 44.5; Acts 20.27The man said to me, “Mortal, look closely and listen attentively, and set your mind on all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

5Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area. The length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length, so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed, and the height, one reed. 6#vv 20, 26Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.#40.6 Heb deep, and one threshold, one reed deep There were 7#vv 10–16, 21, 29, 33, 36recesses, and each recess was one reed wide and one reed deep, and the space between the recesses, five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end was one reed deep. 8Then he measured the inner vestibule of the gateway, one reed. 9Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits, and its posts, two cubits, and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. 10#v 7There were three recesses on either side of the east gate; the three were of the same size, and the posts on either side were of the same size. 11Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits, and the width of the gateway, thirteen cubits. 12There was a barrier before the recesses, one cubit on either side, and each recess was six cubits square. 13Then he measured the gate from the back#40.13 Gk: Heb roof of the one recess to the back#40.13 Gk: Heb roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from wall to wall.#40.13 Heb opening facing opening 14#vv 9, 16; 1 Chr 28.6; Isa 62.9; Ezek 42.1He measured#40.14 Heb made the vestibule (sixty cubits) and the gate next to the post on every side of the court.#40.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain 15From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. 16#vv 21, 22, 26, 31, 34, 37; 1 Kings 6.4The recesses and their posts had windows, with shutters#40.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain on the inside of the gateway all around, and the vestibules also had windows on the inside all around, and on the posts were palm trees.

17 # 1 Chr 9.26; 2 Chr 31.11; Ezek 41.6; 45.5; Rev 11.2 Then he brought me into the outer court; there were chambers there and a pavement all around the court; thirty chambers fronted on the pavement. 18The pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement. 19#vv 23, 27Then he measured the distance from the inner front of#40.19 Compare Gk: Heb from before the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, one hundred cubits.#40.19 Heb adds the east and the north

20Then he measured the gate of the outer court that faced north—its depth and width. 21#vv 7, 16, 30Its recesses, three on either side, and its posts and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 22#vv 6, 16, 26, 31, 34, 37, 49Its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. Seven steps led up to it, and its vestibule was on the inside.#40.22 Gk: Heb before them 23#vv 19, 27Opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court; he measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits.

24 # v 21 Then he led me toward the south, and there was a gate on the south, and he measured its posts and its vestibule; they had the same dimensions as the others. 25#vv 16, 21, 22, 33There were windows all around in it and in its vestibule, like the windows of the others; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 26#vv 6, 16, 22There were seven steps leading up to it; its vestibule was on the inside.#40.26 Gk: Heb before them It had palm trees on its posts, one on either side. 27#vv 19, 23, 32There was a gate on the south of the inner court, and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits.

28 # vv 32, 35 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it was of the same dimensions as the others. 29#vv 7, 10, 16, 21, 22, 25Its recesses, its posts, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and there were windows all around in it and in its vestibule; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 30#vv 16, 21, 25There were vestibules all around the inner court,#40.30 Meaning of Heb uncertain twenty-five cubits deep and five cubits wide. 31#vv 16, 22, 26, 34, 37Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its posts, and its stairway had eight steps.

32 # vv 28–31, 35 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate; it was of the same size as the others. 33#vv 16, 21, 29Its recesses, its posts, and its vestibule were of the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around in it and in its vestibule; its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 34#vv 16, 22, 37Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its posts, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

35 # Ezek 44.4; 47.2 Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others. 36#vv 7, 16, 29Its recesses, its posts, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others,#40.36 Heb ms: MT lacks were of the same size as the others and it had windows all around. Its depth was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 37#vv 16, 35Its vestibule#40.37 Gk Vg: Heb posts faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its posts, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

38 # 2 Chr 4.6; Ezek 41.10; 42.13 There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate#40.38 Cn: Heb at the posts of the gates where the burnt offering was to be washed. 39#Lev 4.2, 3; 5.6; 6.6; 7.1And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side on which the burnt offering and the purification offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered. 40On the outside of the vestibule, where one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables, and on the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables. 41Four tables were on one side and four tables on the other side of the gate, eight tables, on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered. 42#v 39; Ex 20.25There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered. 43There were pegs one handbreadth long fastened all around the inside. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

44 # vv 17, 23, 27, 38; 1 Chr 6.31; 25.1–7On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers#40.44 Gk: Heb chambers for the singers in the inner court, one#40.44 Heb lacks one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south#40.44 Gk: Heb east gate facing north. 45#vv 17, 38; Lev 8.35; 1 Chr 9.23; 2 Chr 13.11He said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple, 46#vv 17, 38; Num 18.5; 1 Kings 2.35; Ezek 43.19; 44.15and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the descendants of Zadok, who alone among the descendants of Levi may come near to the Lord to minister to him.” 47#vv 19, 23, 27He measured the court, one hundred cubits deep and one hundred cubits wide, a square, and the altar was in front of the temple.

The Temple

48Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the posts of the vestibule, five cubits deep on either side, and the width of the gate between the posts#40.48 Gk: Heb lacks between the posts was fourteen cubits, and the shoulders of the gate were three cubits wide on either side.#40.48 Gk: Heb and the width of the gate was three cubits 49#1 Kings 6.3; Jer 52.17–23; Rev 3.12The width of the vestibule was twenty cubits and the depth twelve#40.49 Gk: Heb eleven cubits; ten steps led up#40.49 Gk: Heb and by steps that went up to it, and there were pillars beside the posts on either side.

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