Ezekiel 40:25
New International Version
The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

New Living Translation
It had windows along the walls as the others did, and there was an entry room where the gateway passage opened into the outer courtyard. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87 1 / 2 feet long and 43 3 / 4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.

English Standard Version
Both it and its vestibule had windows all around, like the windows of the others. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

Berean Standard Bible
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

King James Bible
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

New King James Version
There were windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

New American Standard Bible
The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width, twenty-five cubits.

NASB 1995
The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

NASB 1977
And the gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

Legacy Standard Bible
The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

Amplified Bible
The gate and its porches had windows all around like those windows [in the other gateways]; the length was fifty cubits and the width was twenty-five cubits.

Christian Standard Bible
Both the gate and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was 87 1 /2 feet long and 43 3 /4 feet wide.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Both the gate and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide.

American Standard Version
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Contemporary English Version
There were windows in the guardrooms of this gate and in the entrance room, just like the others, and this gate was also 25 meters long and 12.5 meters wide.

English Revised Version
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The gateway and its entrance hall had windows on all sides like the windows in the other gateways. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 44 feet wide.

Good News Translation
There were windows in the rooms of this gateway just as in the others. The total length of the gateway was 84 feet and the width 42 feet.

International Standard Version
The gate and its porches contained windows all around, identical to the other windows. The length of the porch was 50 cubits and its width was 25 cubits.

Majority Standard Bible
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

NET Bible
There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide.

New Heart English Bible
There were windows in it and in its porches all around, like those windows; the length was eighty-six feet one inch, and the breadth fourty-three feet one inch.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there were windows in it and in its arches around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

World English Bible
There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like the other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and windows [are] in it and in its arches all around, like these windows, the length—fifty cubits, and the breadth—twenty-five cubits;

Young's Literal Translation
and windows are to it and to its arches all round about, like these windows, fifty cubits the length, and the breadth five and twenty cubits;

Smith's Literal Translation
And windows to it, and to its porch round about, round about, as those windows: fifty cubits the length, and the breadth, five and twenty cubits.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as the other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And its windows and the vestibule all around were like the other windows: fifty cubits in length and twenty-five cubits in width.

New American Bible
The gate and its vestibule had windows on both sides, like the other windows, fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

New Revised Standard Version
There 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.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And there were windows in it and in its arches round about, like the other windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And it has windows and its gate posts circling like these windows, and fifty cubits was its length and twenty and five its width
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was five and twenty cubits.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The South Gate
24Then he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others. 25Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 26Seven steps led up to it, and its portico was opposite them; it had palm trees on its side pillars, one on each side.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 43:10-12
As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Let them measure the plan, / and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out. / This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

Ezekiel 41:16-18
as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered. / In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary, / were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:

Ezekiel 42:15-20
Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around: / With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long. / He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long. ...

Ezekiel 44:5
The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 47:1-5
Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. / Next he brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and there I saw the water trickling out from the south side. / As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water. ...

Ezekiel 48:30-35
“These will be the exits of the city: Beginning on the north side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, / the gates of the city will be named after the tribes of Israel. On the north side there will be three gates: the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi. / On the east side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan. ...

Revelation 21:10-27
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, / shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal. / The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates. ...

Revelation 11:1-2
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. / But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

Revelation 21:15-17
The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls. / The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height. / And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

Revelation 22:1-5
Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb / down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. / No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him. ...

1 Kings 6:2-10
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. / The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple. / He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple. ...

1 Kings 7:12
The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 3:3-7
The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. / The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. / He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. ...

2 Chronicles 4:9
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.

Zechariah 2:1-5
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. / “Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.” / Then the angel who was speaking with me went forth, and another angel came forward to meet him ...


Treasury of Scripture

And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

windows

Ezekiel 40:16,22,29
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees…

John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

the length

Ezekiel 40:21,33
And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits…

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Ezekiel 40
1. The time, manner, and end of the vision of the city and temple
6. The description of the east gate of the outer court
20. of the north gate
24. of the south gate
27. of the south gate of the inner court
32. of the east gate
35. and of the north gate
39. Eight tables
44. The chambers
48. The porch of the house














And there were windows all around
The Hebrew word for "windows" is "חַלּוֹן" (chalon), which often signifies an opening that allows light and air into a space. In the context of Ezekiel's vision of the temple, these windows symbolize the divine illumination and revelation that God provides to His people. The phrase "all around" suggests completeness and universality, indicating that God's light and truth are accessible from every direction, offering guidance and clarity to all who seek Him.

like the other windows
This phrase implies a consistency and uniformity in the design of the temple. The repetition of the window design signifies the unchanging nature of God's truth and His covenant with Israel. Just as the windows are uniform, so is God's faithfulness and His promises. This consistency is a reminder of the reliability and steadfastness of God's word, which remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The length was fifty cubits
The measurement of "fifty cubits" (approximately 75 feet or 23 meters) is significant in biblical numerology. The number fifty often represents liberation and jubilee, a time of freedom and restoration. In the context of the temple, this length may symbolize the freedom and redemption that God offers to His people through worship and obedience. It is a reminder of the spiritual liberation that comes from dwelling in God's presence.

and the width twenty-five cubits
The width of "twenty-five cubits" (approximately 37.5 feet or 11.5 meters) complements the length, creating a balanced and harmonious structure. The number twenty-five can be seen as a multiple of five, which often represents grace in biblical symbolism. This width, therefore, may symbolize the grace and mercy that God extends to His people, providing a space where they can encounter His presence and experience His love. The dimensions of the temple reflect the perfect balance of God's justice and grace, offering a place of refuge and worship for His people.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Both the gateway and its portico
וּלְאֵֽילַמָּיו֙ (ū·lə·’ê·lam·māw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 361: A pillar-space, a pale

had windows
וְחַלּוֹנִ֨ים (wə·ḥal·lō·w·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common plural
Strong's 2474: A window

all around,
סָבִ֣יב ׀ (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

like the other
הָאֵ֑לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

windows.
כְּהַחֲלֹּנ֖וֹת (kə·ha·ḥăl·lō·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - common plural
Strong's 2474: A window

[It was] fifty
חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים (ḥă·miš·šîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 2572: Fifty

cubits
אַמָּה֙ (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

long
אֹ֔רֶךְ (’ō·reḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 753: Length

and twenty-five
וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים (wə·‘eś·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's 6242: Twenty, twentieth

cubits
אַמָּֽה׃ (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

wide.
וְרֹ֕חַב (wə·rō·ḥaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7341: Breadth, width


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