Ezekiel 41

Inside the Temple

1Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs; # 41:1 Ezk 40:2–3,17 on each side the width of the jamb was 10 1/2 feet. # 41:1 LXX; MT reads jambs; they were 10 12feet wide on each side — the width of the tabernacle,# 41:1 Lit six cubits, also in vv. 3,5 2The width of the entrance was 17 1/2 feet, # 41:2 Lit 10 cubits and the side walls of the entrance were 8 3/4 feet # 41:2 Lit five cubits, also in vv. 9,11,12 wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet, # 41:2 Lit 40 cubits and the width, 35 feet. # 41:2 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4,10,# 41:2 1Kg 6:2,17 3He went inside the next room and measured the jambs at the entrance; # 41:3 Ezk 40:16 they were 3 1/2 feet # 41:3 Lit two cubits, also in v. 22 wide. The entrance was 10 1/2 feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side # 41:3 LXX; MT reads width of the entrance was 12 1/4 feet. # 41:3 Lit seven cubits 4He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet. # 41:4 1Kg 6:20 And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.” # 41:4 1Kg 6:16

Outside the Temple

5Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10 1/2 feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was 7 feet. # 41:5 Lit four cubits,# 41:5 1Kg 6:5–10 6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each. # 41:6 Lit another three and thirty times There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself. # 41:6 1Kg 6:6 7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one. # 41:7 Hb obscure,# 41:7 1Kg 6:8

8I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10 1/2 feet high. # 41:8 Lit a full rod of six cubits of a joint; Hb obscure,# 41:8 Ezk 40:5 9The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8 3/4 feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple 10and the outer chambers was 35 feet wide all around the temple. # 41:10 Ezk 40:17 11The side rooms opened into the free space, one entrance toward the north and another to the south. The area of free space was 8 3/4 feet wide all around.

12Now the building that faced the temple yard toward the west was 122 1/2 feet # 41:12 Lit 70 cubits wide. The wall of the building was 8 3/4 feet thick on all sides, and the building’s length was 157 1/2 feet. # 41:12 Lit 90 cubits

13Then the man measured the temple; it was 175 feet # 41:13 Lit 100 cubits long. # 41:13 Ezk 40:47 In addition, the temple yard and the building, including its walls, were 175 feet long. 14The width of the front of the temple along with the temple yard to the east was 175 feet. 15Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple yard to the west, with its galleries # 41:15 Or ledges on each side; # 41:15 Ezk 42:3,5 it was 175 feet.

Interior Wooden Structures

The interior of the great hall and the porticoes of the court — 16the thresholds, the beveled windows, # 41:16 1Kg 6:4; Ezk 40:16,25 and the balconies all around with their three levels opposite the threshold — were overlaid with wood on all sides. # 41:16 1Kg 6:15 They were paneled from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), 17reaching to the top of the entrance, and as far as the inner temple and on the outside. On every wall all around, on the inside and outside, was a pattern 18carved with cherubim and palm trees. # 41:18 1Kg 6:29 There was a palm tree between each pair of cherubim. # 41:18 2Ch 3:5; Ezk 40:16 Each cherub had two faces: 19a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side, # 41:19 Ezk 1:10; 10:14 and a lion’s face turned toward it on the other. They were carved throughout the temple on all sides. 20Cherubim and palm trees were carved from the ground to the top of the entrance and on the wall of the great hall.

21The doorposts of the great hall were square, # 41:21 1Kg 6:33; Ezk 40:9,14,16; 41:1 and the front of the sanctuary had the same appearance. 22The altar was # 41:21–22 Or and in front of the sanctuary was something that looked like 22an altar made of wood, 5 1/4 feet # 41:22 Lit three cubits high and 3 1/2 feet long. # 41:22 LXX reads long and 3 12feet wide It had corners, and its length # 41:22 LXX reads base and sides were of wood. # 41:22 Ex 30:1–3; 1Kg 6:20; Rv 8:3 The man told me, “This is the table that stands before the Lord.” # 41:22 Ex 25:23,30; Lv 24:6; Ezk 23:41; 44:16; Mal 1:7,12

23The great hall and the sanctuary each had a double door, # 41:23 1Kg 6:31–35 24and each of the doors had two swinging panels. # 41:24 1Kg 6:34 There were two panels for one door and two for the other. 25Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the great hall like those carved on the walls. There was a wooden canopy # 41:25 Hb obscure,# 41:25 1Kg 7:6 outside, in front of the portico. 26There were beveled windows and palm trees on both sides, # 41:26 Ezk 40:16 on the side walls of the portico, the side rooms of the temple, and the canopies. # 41:26 Hb obscure

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Yechezkel 41

1Afterward he#41:1 the angelic being brought me to the Heikhal, and measured the jambs, six cubits wide on the one side, and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the Ohel. 2And the width of the Petach (Entrance) was ten cubits; and the ketefot (shoulders, sidewalls) of the Petach were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side; and he#41:2 the angelic being measured the depth thereof, forty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits. 3Then he went into the Penimah (the Innermost ),#41:3 Holy of Holies and measured the jamb of the Petach, two cubits; and the Petach, six cubits; and the width of the Petach, sheva (seven) cubits. 4So he measured the depth thereof, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, along the Heikhal; and he#41:4 the angelic being said unto me, This is the Kodesh HaKodashim.

5After he#41:5 the angelic being measured the wall of the Beis,#41:5 HaMikdash six cubits; and the width of every tzela (side chamber, cell), four cubits, around the Beis#41:5 HaMikdash on every side. 6And the tzela'ot (side chambers, cells) were tzela over tzela, thirty-three in number; and there were ledges on the wall which was of the Beis for the tzela'ot round about, that they might take hold there, but they had not hold in the wall of the Beis.#41:6 HaMikdash 7And tzela'ot (side chambers, cells) were broader at each story; a ramp spiraled upward by stages around the Beis;#41:7 HaMikdash therefore the width of the Beis increased as it went upward, so from the lowest to the highest through the middle. 8I saw also the height of the Beis#41:8 HaMikdash all around; the yesodot (foundations) of the tzela'ot were a full rod of six cubits long. 9The thickness of the wall, which was for the tzela toward the outside, was five cubits; and that which was open was the space at the end of the tzela'ot of the Beis.#41:9 HaMikdash 10And between the leshakhot was the space the width of twenty cubits around the Beis#41:10 HaMikdash all around. 11And the petach of the tzela were toward the space that was open, one petach toward the north, and another petach toward the south; and the width of the place that was open was five cubits all around.

12Now the Binyan (building, structure) that was before the Gizrah (separation, separating courtyard, restricted space, behind the Beis HaMikdash) at the end toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the Binyan was five cubits thick all around, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

13So he#41:13 the angelic being measured the Beis,#41:13 HaMikdash a hundred cubits long; and the Gizrah, and the Binyan, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; 14Also the width of the face of the Beis,#41:14 HaMikdash and of the Gizrah toward the east, a hundred cubits.

15And he#41:15 the angelic being measured the length of the Binyan along the front of the Gizrah which was behind it, and the atikeha (corner structures) thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the Heikhal Hapenimi, and the ulam vestibules of the Khatzer; 16The doorposts, and the narrow chalonim, and the atikim balconies around on their three stories, opposite the saf (threshold), paneled with etz all around, and from the ground up to the chalonot, and the chalonot were covered; 17To that above the Petach, even unto the Beis HaPenimi, and at the outside, and by the wall all around penimi (inner) and khitzon (outer), by measure. 18And it was carved with keruvim and timorim, so that a palm tree was between a keruv and a keruv; and every keruv had two faces; 19So that the face of an adam was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side; it was carved throughout kol HaBeis all around. 20From the ground unto above the Petach were keruvim and timorim carved, and on the wall of the Heikhal.

21The mezuzas of the Heikhal were squared; as for the front of the Kodesh [HaKodashim], the appearance of the one [mezuzah] was like the appearance of the other. 22The Mizbe'ach was of etz and was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the sides thereof, were of etz; and he#41:22 the angelic being said unto me, This is the shulchan that is before Hashem. 23And the Heikhal and the Kodesh had two delatot. 24And the delatot had two doors apiece, two turning doors; two delatot for the one door, and two delatot for the other door. 25And there were carved on them, on the delatot of the Heikhal, keruvim and timorim, like those carved upon the#41:25 interior walls; and there was a beam upon the face of the Ulam at the outside. 26And there were narrow chalonim and timorim on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the Ulam, and upon the tzela'ot of the Beis,#41:26 HaMikdash and thick beams.

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