Context 7As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. 8For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits. 9Below these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. 10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers. 11The way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their arrangements and openings. 12Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them. 13Then he said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy. 14When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary without laying there their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people. 15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced toward the east and measured it all around. 16He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the measuring reed. 17He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed. 18On the south side he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 19He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the profane. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionAnd the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. Douay-Rheims Bible And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were towards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty cubits long. Darby Bible Translation And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits: English Revised Version And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. Webster's Bible Translation And the wall that was without over against the chambers, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits. World English Bible The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits. Young's Literal Translation 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; Library Mount Moriah"Wherefore is it called mount Moriah? R. Levi Bar Chama and R. Chaninah differ about this matter. One saith, Because thence instruction should go forth to Israel. The other saith, Because thence should go forth fear to the nations of the world." "It is a tradition received by all, that the place, where David built an altar in the threshing-floor of Araunah, was the place where Abraham built his, upon which he bound Isaac; where Noah built his, when he went out of the ark: that in the same place was … John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Ezekiel Links Ezekiel 42:7 NIV • Ezekiel 42:7 NLT • Ezekiel 42:7 ESV • Ezekiel 42:7 NASB • Ezekiel 42:7 KJV • Ezekiel 42:7 Bible Apps • Ezekiel 42:7 Parallel • Bible Hub |