Ezekiel 40

The New Temple

1In 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 Jerusalem had been captured, # 40:1 2Kg 25:1–7; Jr 39:1–9; 52:4–11; Ezk 33:21 on that very day the Lord’s hand was on me, # 40:1 Ezk 1:3; 3:14,22; 37:1 and he brought me there. 2In visions of God # 40:2 Ezk 1:1; 8:3; Dn 7:1,7 he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. # 40:2 Is 2:2–3; Ezk 17:23; 20:40; 37:22; Mc 4:1; Rv 21:10 On its southern slope was a structure resembling a city. 3He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, # 40:3 Ezk 1:7; Dn 10:6; Rv 1:15 with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. # 40:3 Ezk 47:3; Zch 2:1–2; Rv 11:1; 21:15 He was standing by the city gate. 4He spoke to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears, # 40:4 Ezk 2:1,3,6,8; 44:5 and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.” # 40:4 Ezk 43:10

The Wall and Outer Gates

5Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple. # 40:5 Is 26:1; Ezk 42:20 The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of twenty-one inches; # 40:5 = a long cubit each unit was the standard length plus three inches. # 40:5 Lit six cubits by the cubit and a handbreadth He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was 10 1/2 feet, # 40:5 Lit was one rod, also in v. 7 and its height was the same. 6Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. # 40:6 Ezk 43:1 He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 1/2 feet deep — one threshold was 10 1/2 feet deep. 7Each recess was 10 1/2 feet long and 10 1/2 feet deep, and there was a space of 8 3/4 feet # 40:7 Lit five cubits, also in v. 30 between the recesses. The inner threshold of the gate on the temple side next to the gate’s portico was 10 1/2 feet. 8Next he measured the gate’s portico; 9it # 40:8–9 Some Hb mss, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read gate facing the temple side; it was one rod. 9Then he measured the gate’s portico; it was 14 feet, # 40:9 Lit eight cubits and its jambs were 3 1/2 feet. # 40:9 Lit two cubits The gate’s portico was on the temple side.

10There were three recesses on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the jambs on either side also had the same measurements. 11Then he measured the width of the gate’s entrance; it was 17 1/2 feet, # 40:11 Lit 10 cubits while the width # 40:11 Lit length of the gate was 22 3/4 feet. # 40:11 Lit 13 cubits 12There was a barrier of 21 inches # 40:12 Lit one cubit, also in v. 42 in front of the recesses on both sides, and the recesses on each side were 10 1/2 feet # 40:12 Lit six cubits square. 13Then he measured the gate from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43 3/4 feet. # 40:13 Lit 25 cubits, also in vv. 21, 25, 29, 33, 36 The openings of the recesses faced each other. 14Next, he measured the porch — 105 feet. # 40:14 MT adds To the jamb of the court, the gate was all around; Hb obscure,# 40:14 Lit 60 cubits 15The distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the gate’s portico on the inside was 87 1/2 feet. # 40:15 Lit 50 cubits, also in vv. 21, 25, 29, 33, 36 16The recesses and their jambs had beveled windows all around the inside of the gate. # 40:16 1Kg 6:4; Ezk 41:16,26 The porticoes also had windows all around on the inside. Each jamb was decorated with palm trees. # 40:16 1Kg 6:29,32,35; 2Ch 3:5; Ezk 41:18–20,25–26

17Then he brought me into the outer court, # 40:17 Ezk 10:5; 42:1; 46:21; Rv 11:2 and there were chambers and a paved surface laid out all around the court. # 40:17 2Kg 23:11; 1Ch 9:26; 23:28; 2Ch 31:11 Thirty chambers faced the pavement, 18which flanked the courtyard’s gates and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement. 19Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the exterior front of the inner court; it was 175 feet. # 40:19 Lit 100 cubits, also in vv. 23,27,47 This was the east; next the north is described.

20He measured the gate of the outer court facing north, both its length and width. 21Its three recesses on each side, its jambs, and its portico had the same measurements as the first gate: 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide. 22Its windows, portico, and palm trees had the same measurements as those of the gate that faced east. Seven steps led up to the gate, and its portico was ahead of them. 23The inner court had a gate facing the north gate, like the one on the east. He measured the distance from gate to gate; it was 175 feet.

24He brought me to the south side, and there was also a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and portico; they had the same measurements as the others. 25Both 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. 26Its stairway had seven steps, and its portico was ahead of them. It had palm trees on its jambs, one on each side. 27The inner court had a gate on the south. He measured from gate to gate on the south; it was 175 feet.

The Inner Gates

28Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate. When he measured the south gate, it had the same measurements as the others. 29Its recesses, jambs, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide. 30(There were porticoes all around, 43 3/4 feet long and 8 3/4 feet wide. # 40:30 Some Hb mss, LXX omit v. 30) 31Its portico faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees. Its stairway had eight steps.

32Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. When he measured the gate, it had the same measurements as the others. 33Its recesses, jambs, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide. 34Its portico faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

35Then he brought me to the north gate. # 40:35 Ezk 47:2 When he measured it, it had the same measurements as the others, 36as did its recesses, jambs, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was 87 1/2 feet long and 43 3/4 feet wide. 37Its portico # 40:37 LXX; MT reads jambs faced the outer court, and its jambs were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.

Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

38There was a chamber whose door opened into the gate’s portico. # 40:38 Text emended; MT reads door was by the jambs, at the gates The burnt offering was to be washed there. # 40:38 2Ch 4:6 39Inside the gate’s portico there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, sin offering, # 40:39 Lv 1:3–4; 4:2–3 and guilt offering. # 40:39 Lv 5:1–6 40Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico. 41So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done. 42There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, # 40:42 Ex 20:25 each 31 1/2 inches # 40:42 Lit one and a half cubits long, 31 1/2 inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them. 43There were three-inch # 40:43 Lit one handbreadth hooks # 40:43 Or ledges fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.

Rooms for Singers and Priests

44Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers: # 40:44 LXX reads were two chambers,# 40:44 1Ch 6:31–32; 16:41–43; 25:1–7 one # 40:44 LXX; MT reads singers, which was beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south # 40:44 LXX; MT reads east gate, facing north. 45Then the man said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple. # 40:45 1Ch 9:23; Ps 134:1 46The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, # 40:46 1Kg 2:35 the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the Lord to serve him.” # 40:46 Lv 6:12–13; Ezk 43:19; 44:15 47Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet long and 175 feet wide. The altar # 40:47 Ezk 43:13–17 was in front of the temple.

48Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were 8 3/4 feet thick on each side. The width of the gate was 24 1/2 feet, # 40:48 Lit 14 cubits and the side walls of the gate were # 40:48 LXX; MT omits 24 12feet, and the side walls of the gate were 5 1/4 feet # 40:48 Lit three cubits wide on each side. 49The portico was 35 feet # 40:49 Lit 20 cubits across and 21 # 40:49 LXX; MT reads 19 14 feet # 40:49 Lit 12 cubits deep, and 10 steps led # 40:49 MT reads and it was on steps that they would go up to it. # 40:49 1Kg 6:3 There were pillars by the jambs, one on each side. # 40:49 1Kg 7:15–22; 2Ch 3:17; Jr 52:17–23; Rv 3:12

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Yechezkel 40

1In the five and twentieth year of our Golus, in the rosh hashanah,#40:1 of Yovel (Jubilee) in the tenth day of the month in the fourteenth year#40:1 573 B.C.E. after the fall of the Ir,#40:1 Yerushalayim in the selfsame day the Yad Hashem was upon me, and brought me there. 2In the marot Elohim (visions of G-d, Divine visions) He brought me to Eretz Yisroel, and set me upon a very high mountain, on which was a mivneh (structure) resembling an ir to the negev (south). 3And He brought me there, and, hinei, there was an ish, whose appearance was like the appearance of nechoshet, with a cord of linen in his yad, and a keneh hamiddah (measuring rod); and he#40:3 the angelic being stood in the sha'ar.#40:3 i.e., the Eastern Gate; see further 43:15; 44:1-3; Hashemʼs glory enters and exits here and Moshiach, see 44:3 4And the ish said unto me, Ben Adam, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine lev upon all that I shall show thee; for l'ma'an (to the intent, in order that) I might show them unto thee art thou brought here; declare all that thou seest to Bais Yisroel.

5And, hinei, a chomah (wall) was on the outside of the Bais#40:5 Hamikdash compound and was surrounding it, and in the yad of the ish was a keneh hamiddah of six long cubits, each a cubit and a handbreadth; so he#40:5 the angelic being measured the thickness of the structure,#40:5 of the chomah one rod; and the wallʼs height, one rod. 6Then came he#40:6 the angelic being unto the sha'ar (gateway) which faceth eastward, and went up the ma'alot (steps, stairs) thereof, and measured the saf (threshold) of the sha'ar, which was one rod deep; 7And every ta (recess) was one rod wide, and one rod deep; and between the ta'im (rooms) were five cubits; and the saf (threshold) of the sha'ar next to the ulam of the sha'ar on the inside was one rod. 8He#40:8 the angelic being measured also the ulam of the sha'ar on the inside, one rod. 9Then he measured the ulam of the sha'ar, eight cubits; and the jambs thereof, two cubits; and the ulam of the sha'ar was on the inside. 10And the ta'im of the sha'ar eastward were shloshah on this side, and shloshah on that side; they three were of the same measurement; and the jambs had the same measurement on this side and on that side. 11And he measured the width of the petach (opening) of the sha'ar, ten cubits; and the length of the sha'ar, thirteen cubits. 12The boundary line also before the ta'ot (recesses) was one cubit on this side, one cubit on that side; and the ta were six cubits deep on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13He#40:13 the angelic being measured then the sha'ar from the ceiling of one ta to the ceiling of another; the width was five and twenty cubits; petach#40:13 opening of the recess was opposite to petach. 14He#40:14 the angelic being made [measurement] of the ulam, threescore cubits, even unto the jamb of the khatzer at the sha'ar all around. 15And from the front of the sha'ar, the outer side, unto the front of the interior ulam vestibule was fifty cubits. 16And there were chalonot atumot (closed niches) for the ta'im, the sha'ar and for their side walls and these were interior of the sha'ar all around, and likewise the ulam vestibules: and chalonot were round about on the inside; and upon each jamb were timorim (palm trees).

17Then he#40:17 the angelic being brought me into the khatzer hakhitzonah (outer courtyard), and, hinei, there were leshakhot (chambers), and ritzpah (pavement) constructed for the khatzer (courtyard) all around; thirty leshakhot were along the ritzpah. 18And the ritzpah was by the side of the she'arim running the length of the she'arim, the lower ritzpah. 19Then he#40:19 the angelic being measured the width from the forefront of the lower sha'ar unto the forefront of the khatzer hapenimi (inner courtyard) on its outside, a hundred cubits eastward and northward.

20And the sha'ar of the khatzer hakhitzonah that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the width thereof. 21And the ta'im thereof were shloshah on this side and shloshah on that side; and the jambs thereof and the ulam thereof were after the measure of the first sha'ar; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the width five and twenty cubits. 22And their chalonot, and their ulam vestibules, and their timorim, had the same measurements as the sha'ar that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by ma'alot sheva; and the ulam thereof were before them. 23And the sha'ar of the khatzer hapenimi (inner courtyard) was facing toward the north, and toward the east; and he#40:23 the angelic being measured from sha'ar to sha'ar a hundred cubits.

24After that he#40:24 the angelic being brought me toward the south, and, hinei, a sha'ar toward the south; and he measured the jambs thereof and the ulam vestibules thereof according to these measures. 25And there were chalonim in it and in the ulam vestibule thereof round about, like those chalonot; the length was fifty cubits, and the width five and twenty cubits. 26And there were ma'alot shivah (seven steps, stairs) to go up to it, and the ulam vestibule thereof were before them; and it had timorim, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the jambs thereof. 27And there was a sha'ar in the khatzer hapenimi toward the south; and he#40:27 the angelic being measured from sha'ar to sha'ar toward the south a hundred cubits.

28And he#40:28 the angelic being brought me to the khatzer hapenimi through the south sha'ar; and he#40:28 the angelic being measured the south sha'ar according to these measures; 29And the ta'im thereof, and the jambs thereof, and the ulam vestibule thereof, according to these measures; and there were chalonot in it and in the ulam vestibule thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits wide. 30And the ulam vestibules round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits wide. 31And the ulam vestibules thereof were facing the khatzer hachatzonah (the outer courtyard); and timorim were upon the jambs thereof; and the going up to it had ma'alot shmoneh (eight steps, stairs).

32And he#40:32 the angelic being brought me into the khatzer hapenimi toward the east; and he measured the sha'ar according to these measures. 33And the ta'im thereof, and the jambs thereof, and the ulam vestibule thereof, were according to these measures; and there were chalonot therein and in the ulam vestibule thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits wide. 34And the ulam vestibule thereof was toward the khatzer hakhitzonah; and timorim were upon the jambs thereof, on this side, and on that side; and the going up to it had ma'alot shmoneh.

35And he#40:35 the angelic being brought me to the northern sha'ar, and measured it according to these measures: 36The ta'im thereof, the jambs thereof, and the ulam vestibules thereof, and the chalonot to it round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the width five and twenty cubits. 37And the jambs thereof were toward the khatzer hakhitzonah; and timorim were upon the jambs thereof, on this side, and on that side; and the going up to it had ma'alot shmoneh.

38And the lishka and the entryways thereof were by the ulam vestibules of the she'arim, where they washed the olah (burnt offering). 39And in the ulam of the sha'ar were two shulchanot (tables) on this side, and two shulchanot on that side, to slaughter thereon the olah and the chattat and the asham. 40And at the side outside, as one goeth up to the petach hasha'ar hatzafonah, were two shulchanot; and on the other side, which was at the ulam of the sha'ar, were two shulchanot. 41Four shulchanot were on this side, and four shulchanot on that side, by the side of the sha'ar; eight shulchanot, whereupon they slaughtered [shachat]. 42And the four shulchanot were of hewn stone for the olah (burnt offering), of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; whereupon also they placed the kelim wherewith they slaughtered the olah (burnt offering) and the zevach. 43And within were hooks, one handbreadth, set up inside all around; and upon the shulchanot was the basar of the korban.

44And outside the sha'ar hapenimi were the lishkhot of the sharim (singers) in the khatzer hapenimi, which was at the side of the northern sha'ar; and their view was toward the south; one at the side of the eastern sha'ar having the view toward the north. 45And he#40:45 the angelic being said unto me, This lishka, whose view is toward the south, is for the Kohanim, the Shomrei Mishmeret HaBeis.#40:45 HaMikdash 46And the lishka whose view is toward the north is for the Kohanim, the Shomrei Mishmeret HaMizbe'ach; these are the Bnei Tzadok among the Bnei Levi, which come near to Hashem to minister unto Him.

47So he#40:47 the angelic being measured the khatzer (court), a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, foursquare; and the Mizbe'ach was before the Beis.#40:47 HaMikdash

48And he#40:48 the angelic being brought me to the Ulam of the Beis,#40:48 HaMikdash and measured each jamb of the Ulam, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side; and the width of the sha'ar was shalosh cubits on this side, and shalosh cubits on that side. 49The length of the Ulam was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits, and he#40:49 the angelic being brought me by the ma'alot whereby they went up to it; and there were ammudim (pillars) by the doorposts, one on this side, and another on that side.

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