translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: April 19, 573 b.c .


text: Or “power.” sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God ( 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1 ).


text: The expression introduces the three major visions of Ezekiel ( 1:1; 8:3; 40:2 ).


text: The reference to a very high mountain is harmonious with Isa 2:2 .


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.


text: Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”


text: Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”


text: Heb “house.”


text: Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.


text: Heb “building.”


text: Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6 , three times in v. 7 , and once in v. 8 ).


text: The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.


text: Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters) according to the “long” cubit. See the note on the first occurrence of the phrase “10½ feet” in v. 5 .


text: Heb “eight cubits” (i.e., 4.2 meters).


text: Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).


text: Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).


text: Heb “thirteen cubits” (i.e., 6.825 meters).


text: Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).


text: Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).


text: Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).


text: Heb “made.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT reads “jambs” which does not make sense in context. Supposing a confusion of yod for vav , the text may be emended to read “porch.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:518.


text: Heb “sixty cubits” (i.e., 31.5 meters).


text: The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for sense.


text: Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).


text: Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).


text: Heb “as these windows.”


text: Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).


text: The LXX reads “porches.”


text: The MT reads “jambs of the gates” which does not make sense in a context discussing one chamber. The emendation to “porch” is similar to v. 14 . See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:530.


text: Heb “one and a half cubits” (i.e., 78.75 cm).


text: This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.


text: Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).


text: “One” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for clarity in the translation.


text: This reading is supported by the LXX; the MT reads “east.”


text: Heb “the house.”


text: Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).


text: The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.


text: The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography. tn Or “sidewalls.”


text: Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).


text: Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).


text: Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).


text: The LXX reads “ten steps.”