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Ezekiel 40 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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The New Temple Area

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 - On April 28,[fn] during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity—fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem—the LORD took hold of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:2 - In a vision from God he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. From there I could see toward the south what appeared to be a city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:3 - As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:4 - He said to me, “Son of man, watch and listen. Pay close attention to everything I show you. You have been brought here so I can show you many things. Then you will return to the people of Israel and tell them everything you have seen.”
The East Gateway

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:5 - I could see a wall completely surrounding the Temple area. The man took a measuring rod that was 10½ feet[fn] long and measured the wall, and the wall was 10½ feet[fn] thick and 10½ feet high.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:6 - Then he went over to the eastern gateway. He climbed the steps and measured the threshold of the gateway; it was 10½ feet front to back.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. Each of these alcoves was 10½ feet square, with a distance between them of 8¾ feet[fn] along the passage wall. The gateway’s inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner end of the gateway passage, was 10½ feet front to back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:8 - He also measured the entry room of the gateway.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - It was 14 feet[fn] across, with supporting columns 3½ feet[fn] thick. This entry room was at the inner end of the gateway structure, facing toward the Temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:10 - There were three guard alcoves on each side of the gateway passage. Each had the same measurements, and the dividing walls separating them were also identical.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:11 - The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17½ feet[fn] wide at the opening and 22¾ feet[fn] wide in the gateway passage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:12 - In front of each of the guard alcoves was a 21-inch[fn] curb. The alcoves themselves were 10½ feet[fn] on each side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - Then he measured the entire width of the gateway, measuring the distance between the back walls of facing guard alcoves; this distance was 43¾ feet.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:14 - He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:15 - The full length of the gateway passage was 87½ feet[fn] from one end to the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:16 - There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard alcoves and their dividing walls. There were also windows in the entry room. The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees.
The Outer Courtyard

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:17 - Then the man brought me through the gateway into the outer courtyard of the Temple. A stone pavement ran along the walls of the courtyard, and thirty rooms were built against the walls, opening onto the pavement.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:18 - This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:19 - Then the man measured across the Temple’s outer courtyard between the outer and inner gateways; the distance was 175 feet.[fn]
The North Gateway

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:20 - The man measured the gateway on the north just like the one on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21 - Here, too, there were three guard alcoves on each side, with dividing walls and an entry room. All the measurements matched those of the east gateway. The gateway passage was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:22 - The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical to those in the east gateway. There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was at the inner end of the gateway passage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:23 - Here on the north side, just as on the east, there was another gateway leading to the Temple’s inner courtyard directly opposite this outer gateway. The distance between the two gateways was 175 feet.
The South Gateway

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:24 - Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:25 - 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 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:26 - This gateway also had a stairway of seven steps leading up to it, and an entry room at the inner end, and palm tree decorations along the dividing walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:27 - And here again, directly opposite the outer gateway, was another gateway that led into the inner courtyard. The distance between the two gateways was 175 feet.
Gateways to the Inner Courtyard

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:28 - Then the man took me to the south gateway leading into the inner courtyard. He measured it, and it had the same measurements as the other gateways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29 - Its guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room were the same size as those in the others. It also had windows along its walls and in the entry room. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:30 - (The entry rooms of the gateways leading into the inner courtyard were 14 feet[fn] across and 43¾ feet wide.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:31 - The entry room to the south gateway faced into the outer courtyard. It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight steps leading to its entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:32 - Then he took me to the east gateway leading to the inner courtyard. He measured it, and it had the same measurements as the other gateways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - Its guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room were the same size as those of the others, and there were windows along the walls and in the entry room. The gateway passage measured 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:34 - Its entry room faced into the outer courtyard. It had palm tree decorations on its columns, and there were eight steps leading to its entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:35 - Then he took me around to the north gateway leading to the inner courtyard. He measured it, and it had the same measurements as the other gateways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:36 - The guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room of this gateway had the same measurements as in the others and the same window arrangements. The gateway passage measured 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:37 - Its entry room faced into the outer courtyard, and it had palm tree decorations on the columns. There were eight steps leading to its entrance.
Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:38 - A door led from the entry room of one of the inner gateways into a side room, where the meat for sacrifices was washed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:39 - On each side of this entry room were two tables, where the sacrificial animals were slaughtered for the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:40 - Outside the entry room, on each side of the stairs going up to the north entrance, were two more tables.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:41 - So there were eight tables in all—four inside and four outside—where the sacrifices were cut up and prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42 - There were also four tables of finished stone for preparation of the burnt offerings, each 31½ inches square and 21 inches high.[fn] On these tables were placed the butchering knives and other implements for slaughtering the sacrificial animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:43 - There were hooks, each 3 inches[fn] long, fastened to the foyer walls. The sacrificial meat was laid on the tables.
Rooms for the Priests

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:44 - Inside the inner courtyard were two rooms,[fn] one beside the north gateway, facing south, and the other beside the south[fn] gateway, facing north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:45 - And the man said to me, “The room beside the north inner gate is for the priests who supervise the Temple maintenance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:46 - The room beside the south inner gate is for the priests in charge of the altar—the descendants of Zadok—for they alone of all the Levites may approach the LORD to minister to him.”
The Inner Courtyard and Temple
(cf. 1Ki 7:14–22 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47 - Then the man measured the inner courtyard, and it was a square, 175 feet wide and 175 feet across. The altar stood in the courtyard in front of the Temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 - Then he brought me to the entry room of the Temple. He measured the walls on either side of the opening to the entry room, and they were 8¾ feet thick. The entrance itself was 24½ feet wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance were an additional 5¼ feet long.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:49 - The entry room was 35 feet[fn] wide and 21 feet[fn] deep. There were ten steps leading up to it, with a column on each side.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew At the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on April 28, 573 B.C.; also see note on 1:1.
Hebrew 6 long cubits [3.2 meters], each being a cubit [18 inches or 45 centimeters] and a handbreadth [3 inches or 8 centimeters] in length.
Hebrew 1 rod [3.2 meters]; also in 40:5c, 7.
As in Greek version, which reads 1 rod [3.2 meters] deep; Hebrew reads 1 rod deep, and 1 threshold, 1 rod deep.
Hebrew 5 cubits [2.7 meters]; also in 40:48.
Many Hebrew manuscripts add which faced inward toward the Temple; it was 1 rod [10.5 feet or 3.2 meters] deep. 9 Then he measured the entry room of the gateway.
Hebrew 8 cubits [4.2 meters].
Hebrew 2 cubits [1.1 meters].
Hebrew 10 cubits [5.3 meters].
Hebrew 13 cubits [6.9 meters].
Hebrew 1 cubit [53 centimeters].
Hebrew 6 cubits [3.2 meters].
Hebrew 25 cubits [13.3 meters]; also in 40:21, 25, 29, 30, 33, 36.
Hebrew 60 cubits [31.8 meters]. Greek version reads 20 cubits [35 feet or 10.6 meters]. The meaning of the Hebrew in this verse is uncertain.
Hebrew 50 cubits [26.5 meters]; also in 40:21, 25, 29, 33, 36.
Hebrew 100 cubits [53 meters]; also in 40:23, 27, 47.
As in 40:9, which reads 8 cubits [14 feet or 4.2 meters]; here the Hebrew reads 5 cubits [83/4 feet or 2.7 meters]. Some Hebrew manuscripts and the Greek version lack this entire verse.
Hebrew 11/2 cubits [80 centimeters] long and 11/2 cubits wide and 1 cubit [53 centimeters] high.
Hebrew a handbreadth [8 centimeters].
As in Greek version; Hebrew reads rooms for singers.
As in Greek version; Hebrew reads east.
As in Greek version, which reads The entrance was 14 cubits [7.4 meters] wide, and the walls of the entrance were 3 cubits [1.6 meters] on each side; Hebrew lacks 14 cubits wide, and the walls of the entrance were.
Hebrew 20 cubits [10.6 meters].
As in Greek version, which reads 12 cubits [21 feet or 6.4 meters]; Hebrew reads 11 cubits [191/4 feet or 5.8 meters].
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