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Ezekiel 40:7

What does Ezekiel 40:7 mean?

A plain-English look at Ezekiel 40:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and the little chamber one reed long and one reed broad, and between the little chambers five cubits, and the threshold of the gate, from the side of the porch of the gate from within, one reed.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad: and between the little chambers were five cubits:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And [each] chamber was one reed long and one reed broad; and between the chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate, beside the porch of the gate within, was one reed.

Context

v.6Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

v.7This passage

v.8He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:28

    For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;

  • Ezekiel 40:33

    and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

  • 2 Chronicles 3:9

    And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

  • Ezra 8:29

    Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ houses of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.

  • Ezekiel 42:5

    Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

  • 2 Chronicles 31:11

    Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them;

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